OunceDesk Press
The American Series and the Archive Editions — researched from the record.
Four books, 40 chapters. One of them — 10 chapters — is free to read in full today; the 3 still being finished are listed anyway, with their contents and their sources, so the work can be checked before it ships. Every factual assertion carries a citation that resolves to a document in the OunceDesk Archive — and on the web, unlike in print, you can open it.
BOOKS3 volumes
The American Series
OunceDesk's deep guides to United States coinage. Each volume covers one series end to end — history, attribution, grading, collecting — and connects directly to that series' reference pages.
- The Early Dollars — An OunceDesk Family GuideThe book10 chapters · PDF · EPUB · Read online
- The Early Half Dollars — An OunceDesk Guide (The American Series)The book10 chapters · Not published yet — contents and sources only
- The Early Quarters — An OunceDesk Guide (The American Series)The book10 chapters · Not published yet — contents and sources only
BOOKS1 volume
Archive Editions
Documentary investigations into American money, built from the primary record. They are not organised by coin series, because the record is not: an Archive Edition follows a question through the files wherever it goes.
- In God We Trust: The Mint's Civil WarThe book10 chapters · Not published yet — contents and sources only
ARCHIVE
How to audit any of this
Each book page carries the Archive commit it was built against, the number of sources and claims behind it, and its corrections record. Where the record is silent, the books say so rather than filling the gap — uncertainty is part of the research, not a defect in it.