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Coin Collecting Books For Your Library
 
"Buy the book before the coin!"
 
I'm a firm believer in learning as much about a subject as you can before you buy.
The books below are some of those that you will find in my personal library.
  
 

 

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100 Greatest U.S. Modern Coins 

 

by Jeff Garrett and Scott Schechter

 

(Release Date March 1, 2011 - PreOrder here)

 

Whitman publishing announces the seventh entry in their popular 100 Greatest collection. Written by Scott Schechter and Jeff Garrett, 100 Greatest Modern U.S. Coins explores the most fascinating, rarest, most popular, and most valuable Mint products of recent generations.

Written by two of today’s most respected numismatists, it includes beautiful high-resolution photographs in an attractive, hardcover coffee-table book. 

 

Current Editions of other 100 Greatest books:

 

 


All-Time #1 Bestseller  [More bestsellers >>]

 

2012 A Guidebook of United States Coins,

65th Edition (The Official Red Book)

 

by R. S. Yeoman, edited by Kenneth Bressett

 

A Guidebook of United States Coins has full color photos on high quality paper for every coin type produced by the United States. It includes many specialty areas such as Hard Times and Civil War tokens, private and territorial coins, colonial issues, error coins, and bullion coins.

 

It also contains statistics and a price guide for every date and mint mark, including many of the more commonly collected die varieties. It even contains a section on collecting the previous additions of the guide itself. Some of the oldest editions command hundreds of dollars.

 


Top Coin Book for Beginners  [More books for beginners >>]

 

The Expert's Guide to Collecting and Investing in

Rare Coins

 

by Q. David Bowers

 

The Expert's Guide to Collecting and Investing in Rare Coins is a comprehensive insider's look at rare coins, tokens, medals, and paper money. At 34 chapters and nearly 700 pages, it covers everything from grading to determining values to techniques of smart auction bidding. More than 1,300 photographs and illustrations, both black and white and in full-color galleries, complement the text.

 

This book makes a great complement to the Red Book as it is not a price guide where you need to buy a new copy every year. The content and advice in this book will be as relevant 10 years from now as it is today.

 

Top Coin Album for Children 

 

Coin Collecting for Kids 

 

by Steve Otfinoski

 

Coin Collecting for Kids is a coin album that is a multi-page reminiscent of the old Whitman folders from the past where you filled the open slots with your coins.

 

This is a revised edition that includes Presidential dollar coins and Westward Journey nickels. A colorful, kid-friendly book to introduce children to a lifelong hobby.

 

Slots on every page let kids collect birth-year coins, millennium coins, and twentieth-century coins. Lastly, a gatefold spread will accommodate all 50 wildly popular statehood quarters. Organized by release year, each slot lists the state's nickname, motto, flower, and bird.

 


Shipwrecks & Treasure [More books on shipwrecks and treasure >>]

 

Treasure Ship: The Legend and Legacy of the

S.S. Brother Jonathan

 

by Dennis M. Powers

 

Treasure Ship: The Legend and Legacy of the SS Brother Jonathan tells the harrowing tale of the last voyage of the Brother Jonathan, the gold she carried, and her passengers. The latter included prospectors, dignitaries, card sharks, young families, and even a notorious madam with seven of her “soiled doves.”

 

For more than a hundred years the ship’s treasure remained one of the Pacific’s great secrets until well over one thousand gold coins were recovered which started another battle that raged all the way to the supreme court.

 

 


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