SYMPTOMS OF NUMISMATIC BIBLIOMANIA

1. Not only do you "buy the book before you buy the coin," you sometimes never even get around to buying the coin.

2. You have more books by Q. David Bowers than Q. David Bowers does.

3. All your Dansco Bookshelf Albums are empty and were only bought because they look good on the bookshelf.

4. You have nightmares that the latest edition of Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins will only be available on kindle.

5. You dream about the ANA publishing ANA Grading Standards for Numismatic Books.

6. No one understands why you must purchase a new edition of the Red Book every year, and neither do you.

7. You refuse to part with your decrepit hoard of The Numismatist even though you have access to every issue on the ANA Digital Archive.

8. You possess a reference book on foreign coinage, written in a foreign language, which you cannot speak or read, but still bought it because it was the best reference available.

9. You are always surprised whenever numismatic books arrive in the mail because you don't recall ever ordering them.

10. You possess a perfectly good copy but buy a second one just for a better dust jacket.

12. You continue to buy "other" (non-numismatic) books but rarely find time to read them.

13. Numismatic booksellers consider you a whale.

14. You go out of your way to find a personal physician named Dr. Sheldon.

15. You name your dog "Whitman."

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