Below is a representative sampling of permanent wants.  Some titles are rare in their original editions, but also exist in reprint form.  Some are commonly found, but all are in steady demand by researchers and collectors. If you have these or other numismatic titles for sale please contact: 
 

Ancient Coinage

• Jenkins, Ancient Greek Coins
• Klawans, An Outline of Ancient Greek Coins
• Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek Coins
• Kraay & Hirmer, Greek Coins
• Sear, Greek Coins and Their Values

• Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage
• Kent & Hirmer, Roman Coins
• Klawans, Reading and Dating Roman Imperial Coins
• Sutherland, Roman Coins

World Coinage

• Andrews, Australasian Tokens & Coins
• Craig, The Mint
• Davenport, European Crowns, 1600-1700

U.S. Coinage

Guide Books

• Mehl, Star Coin Book (1st-25th editions only)
• Mehl, Star Rare Coin Book (1st-25th editions only)
• Yeoman, A Guide Book of United States Coins  (1st - 12th editions only)
• Yeoman, Handbook of United States Coins  (1st-3rd editions only)

U.S. Colonial Coins 

• Crosby, Early Coins of America
• Maris, Coins of New Jersey
• Miller, The State Coinage of Connecticut
• Vlack, Early American Coins

Early American Copper coins

• Clapp, The United States Cents of the Years 1798-1799
• Clapp-Newcomb, The United States Cents of the Years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1800
• Crosby, The United States Cents of 1793
• Maris, Varieties of Copper Issues of the U.S. Mint of the Year 1794
• Newcomb, The United States Cents of the Years 1800-1802-1803
• Sheldon, Early American Cents

Other U.S. Coins

• Browning, Early Quarter Dollars of the U.S.
• Carothers, Fractional Money
• Newlin, A Classification of Early Half-Dimes of the U.S.
• Valentine, The United States Half Dimes

Private and Pioneer Gold Coins

• Andrews, United States Cents
• Breen-Gillio, California and Fractional Gold
• Clifford, Pioneer Gold Coins of the West 1848-1861
• Griffin, The Bechtlers and Bechtler Coinage 
• Mumey, Clark, Gruber and Company, A Pioneer Denver Mint

U.S. Mint History (all branches)

• Evans, History of the U.S. Mint
• Heaton, Coinage of the United States Branch Mints
• Johnson, A Visit to the Cabinet of the U.S. Mint
• Runkel, The United States Mint
• Stewart, History of the U.S. Mint
• Young, The United States Mint at Philadelphia

Annual Reports, Director of the Mint

Biographies

• Ayer, Reminiscences of Frederick Ayer
• Ayer, Reminiscences of J. C. Ayer
• Bathe, Jacob Perkins
• Boyd, Elias Boudinot
• Hindle, David Rittenhouse
• Wroth, Abel Buell of Connecticut

Medals

• Baker, Engraved Portraits of Washington
• Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington
• Belden, Indian Peace Medals
• Hart, Engraved Portraits of Washington
• Hough, Washingtoniana
• Jamieson, Medals Awarded to Indian Chiefs
• Johnston, Original Portraits of Washington
• Marvin, Medals of the Masonic Fraternity
• Storer, Medicina in Nummis

Tokens

Bushnell, An Arrangement of Tradesmen's Cards

Bushnell, An Historical Account of First Three Business Tokens

Hetrich-Guttag, Civil War Tokens and Tradesmen's  Store Cards

Paper Money

U.S. Colonial Paper Money

• Breck, Historical Sketch of Continental Paper Money
• Bronson, Historical Account of Connecticut Currency
• Felt, An Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency
• Hart, History of issues of Paper Money in the American Colonies
• Phillips, Historical Sketch of the Paper Money Issued by Pennsylvania
• Phillips, Historical Sketch of the Paper Currency of the American Colonies
• Rodney, Colonial Finances in Delaware

Confederate Paper Money

• Bradbeer, Confederate and Southern State Currency
• Fuller, Confederate Currency and Stamps 1861-1865
• Lee, The Currency of the Confederate States of America
• Thian, The Currency of the Confederate States

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

• Holtzclaw, History of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing 1862-1962
• Schmeckebier, The Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Bank Note Company histories

• Griffith, Story of the American Bank Note Company
• Toppen, A Hundred Years of Bank Note Engraving

Engraving

• Ormsby, A Description of the Present System of Bank Note Engraving
• Staffer, American Engravers

Counterfeiting

• Burnham, American Counterfeits
• Dye, Dye's Counterfeit Detector
• Eastman, Eastman's Treatise on Counterfeit, Altered, and Spurious Banknotes
• Foote, The Universal Counterfeit and Altered Bank Note Detector
• Heath, Heath's Infallible Counterfeit Detector
• Narramore, Narramore's Photographic National Bank Note Detector
• Perkins, Perkins Bank Note Test
• Peyton, How To Detect Counterfeit Bank Notes
• Thompson, Autographical Counterfeit Detector

Bank History

• Cross, Financing an Empire: Banking in California
• Domett, A History of the Bank of New York
• Holdsworth, Financing an Empire: Banking in Pennsylvania
• White, A Century of Banking in Pittsburgh

Lottery History

• Asbury, Sucker's Progress
• Ewen, Lotteries and Sweepstakes
• Ezell, Fortune's Merry Wheel
• Weiss, The Early Lotteries of New Jersey

Emperor Norton

• Cowan, The Forgotten Characters of San Francisco
• Dressler, Emperor Norton
• Drury, Norton I, Emperor of the United States
• Kramer, Emperor Norton of San Francisco
• Lane, Emperor Norton, Mad Monarch of America

Periodicals

• American Journal of Numismatics
• Coin Collector's Journal
• The Historical Magazine (1857-1871)
• The Numismatist (before 1940 only) 
• Numismatic Scrapbook (before 1940 only) 

Auction catalogs - any sale cataloged by:

• Chapman, Henry
• Chapman, Samuel Hudson
• Chapman, S.H. & H.
• Cogan,  Edward
• Elder, Thomas
• Empire Coin Company
• Frossard, Edouard
• Low, Lyman H.
• Mason, E.L.
• Massamore, George
• New York Coin & Stamp Company
• Sampson, Henry
• Smith, H.P.
• Strobridge, William
• United States Coin Company
• Woodward, W. Elliot

Newspapers - 

We buy British and American newspapers containing articles relating to U.S. numismatics.  These are used in our Numismatics in the News project.  We will also purchase clean photocopies of articles of interest.

Letters

Numismatic collectors and researchers generate volumes of correspondence which are often of use to other researchers and collectors.  We buy single letters or entire filing cabinets. 
 

Autographs

Autographs and original correspondence relating to the following Mint and Bureau of Engraving and Printing officials are always of interest: 
 

Bouninot, Elias	Philadelphia	1795-1805
Clark, Spencer M	Washington	1862-1868
Curry, Abraham	Carson City	1870
Eckert, George	Philadelphia	1851-1853
Gaither, Burgess S.	Charlotte	1841-1844
Irish, O. H.	Washington	1878-1883
Jewell, Henry C.	Washington	1876-77
Linderman, H.R.	Philadelphia	1867-1869,  1873-1878
McCartlee, George B.	Washington	1869-1876
McPherson, Edward	Washington	1877-1878
Moore, Samuel	Philadelphia	1824-1835
Patterson, Robert	Philadelphia	1806-1824
Patterson, Robert M.	Philadelphia	1835-1851
Rittenhouse, David	Philadelphia	1792-1795
Rice,H.F.	Carson City	1870-1873
Rossignol, Paul	Dahlonega	1841-1843
de Saussure, Henry William	Philadelphia	1795
Singleton, Joseph J.	Dahlonega	1837-1841
Snowden, James Ross	Philadelphia	1853-1861
Spinner, Francis E.	Washington	1861-1875
Pettit, Thomas M.	Philadelphia	1853
Pollack, James	Philadelphia	1861-1866,  1869-1873
Wheeler, John Hill	Charlotte	1837-1841

 

Ephemera

"Ephemera" refers to printed items such as announcements, order forms, postcards, flyers, and broadsides.  These were never meant to last and were intended to be used and thrown away.  As a result many of these items are quite rare today.  While often of some use to the researcher, these items are mainly quaint reminders of coin collecting in a bygone era.    We buy single items or whole collections.