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The Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, Tokens & Paper Money Beginning with the Eighth edition the title changed to include the word Standard. Paper Money replaced Fractional Currency.

Title Page Advertisement in August 1959 issue of The Canadian Numismatic Journal Advertisement in October 1959 issue of The Canadian Numismatic Journal	1960 STANDARD CATALOGUE of CANADIAN COINS, TOKENS and PAPER MONEY © 1959 by James E. Charlton 8th Edition Publication: Fall 1959 Publisher: WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY Issue Price $1.75 postpaid in Canada ($1.50 USA) Details: Letter press printing & soil resistant hard cover. 126 pages. Canadian distribution by Canada Coin exchange USA distribution by Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, Wis. Size: 13.2 cm x 19.7 cm (5 3/16" x 7 3/4") Contents completely revamped Pages 1-10: Title page, Acknowledgements, Foreword, Age-Rarity-Value, Monetary Traditions, Tokens of Canada, Decimal Coinages Canadian Commemoratives, Coinage of Newfoundland, Mints and Mint Marks, Building a Collection, Bank Notes Popular, Fraternal Affiliation Pages 11-33: Tokens, including French Regime, Jetons Struck for the French Colonies in America, Quebec Tokens, The Bridge Tokens, Bouquet Sous, Ontario Tokens, Pages 34-41: The Nova Scotia Coinage including line drawings, Breton #,s, and list of values for each grade Pages 43-44: The New Brunswick Coinage including line drawings, Breton #,s, and list of values for each grade Pages 43-44: Prince Edward Island Coinage including line drawings, Breton #,s, and list of values for each grade Pages 45-44: North West Company, Hudson's Bay Company, North West Territory, British Columbia and Newfoundland Tokens including line drawings, Breton #,s, and list of values for each grade. Pages 50-59: Wellington, Ships, Colonies & Commerce, North American, Anonymous and Miscellaneous Tokens and Official Medals, including line drawings, Breton #,s, and list of values for each grade. Pages 60: Prince Edward Island Holey Dollar and Unlisted Obsolete Local Tokens, including pictures and list of values for each grade. Pictures of conditions of coins provide a guide to grading on page 60. Pages 61-89: Coins of Canada, including pictures, varieties and list of values for each grade. Pages 90-96: Coins of Newfoundland, including pictures, varieties and list of values for each grade. Pages 97-125: Canada and Newfoundland Paper Money including Playing Card Money, Canada's First Bank Note, Dominion of Canada Notes, and Bank of Canada Notes. Many excellent photographs are included along with a list of values for each grade. Page 126: Index List of values generally similar except for another sharp increase in Dominion of Canada issues. Mintage's include 1958
	Book Review of the Eighth Edition in the December 1959 issue of The Numismatist (page 1514) " 1960 Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, Tokens and Paper Money, Fully Illustrated, 1670 to Date" by J. E. Charlton, 128 pp., Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, Wisc. New format (7!/2 x 5 in.) with soil-resistant hard cover, 1959, $1.50. To hundreds of collectors of Canadian coins and tokens, the yearly appearance of a "new Charlton catalog" has become a time for "taking stock." Canada's buoyant economy, her expanding numismatic market, and the greatly increased numbers interested in Canadian and Newfoundland currency series, assure that such a mental "totaling of assets" should not be an unpleasant task. Mr. Charlton has doubly assured this by producing a reference which may come to be looked upon as a milestone in Canadian numismatic s comparable to the appearance of a Canadian Numismatic Journal in printed form (1956) and of the first "Standard Catalogue," in far more modest format, in 1952. The new catalog incorporates the material included in the author's previous books of Canadian coinage and tokens and of Canadian and Newfoundland paper money, adding a number of new features which should prove of definite value. Aside from the more substantial hard-cover format, the first modification to catch the eye - and win the applause - of t he reviewer would be the great improvement in the quality and the number of the illustrations. Mr. Charlton explains that a letter press has been used, and new plates, in an effort to obtain greater sharpness. Enlarged illustrations will do much to clear up misunderstanding concerning varieties of such popular pieces as the three 1880 Newfoundland cents, the Canadian 10 cent coins of 1886, 1891, 1893, 1909 and 1913 and the 50 cents of 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950 and 1953, including die varieties which Mr. Charlton had not catalogued before. Another extremely welcome modification is the reassembling of data, so that mint statistics, prices and illustrations normally are to be found on the same page. (Material is well indexed, and appropriate page titles make leafing through the book a simple task). Collectors, both new and experienced, will welcome the photographs depicting four standards of grading, with reference to Canadian 25 cent coins of four reigns. While there can be no doubt that Mr. Charlton, as a successful Toronto dealer and coin auctioneer, is as familiar as anyone with the Canadian numismatic market, it is to his credit that his catalog, through the years, have augmented his own knowledge with the experience and suggestions of many of the country's best known numismatists. The individual commentaries, which greatly enhance the section on Canadian and Newfoundland tokens, for example, suggest the work of Robert Willey. The first full treatment of the complex issues of Newfoundland government cash notes draws on research published in the Canadian Numismatic Journal. An eight-page foreword offers background information on the numismatic series and hobby-which should prove a welcome innovation for the many newcomers to numismatic ranks. The catalog encompasses the token and coinage series of Canada and Newfoundland, including the French regime, enlarged to include "playing card" releases, and the provincial issues prior to Confederation. The Prince Edward Island "Holey dollar" and plug will be found among the illustrations for the first time. The paper money primarily is the government material of the Dominion of Canada and the Government of Newfoundland and the Canadian central bank, The Bank of Canada. The paper money illustrations should be adequate to identify the series and the principal types. The catalog belongs on the shelf of any collector interested in Canadian numismatics, or wishing to appreciate the place of these important series in the world picture. "Coins are fascinating - but like other things which require specialized knowledge for full appreciation, coins are grossly misunderstood," asserts the foreword. For even the newest of collectors, with this current catalog, such certainly need not be the case.


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The Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, Tokens & Paper Money

Book Review of the Eighth Edition in the December 1959 issue of The Numismatist (page 1514)

" 1960 Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, Tokens and Paper Money, Fully Illustrated, 1670 to Date" by J. E. Charlton, 128 pp., Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, Wisc. New format (7!/2 x 5 in.) with soil-resistant hard cover, 1959, $1.50.