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The Krause catalogs, RedBook, if you collect ancients, ERIC, RIC. |
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United States
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I've got the RedBook, the Coin Collectors Survival Manual, & the ANA Grading Standards, all great books. Does anyone have any suggestions for a book on detecting counterfeit &/or altered coins. I'm looking for a guide that will help me identify coins that have been cleaned, or dipped & retoned, or artificially toned, or whatever. Some altered coins are fairly easy to spot, but some things are not so obvious to someone(me) without a lot of experience. A guide book with a lot of pictures would be very helpful. |
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United States
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I just picked up a used book from 1977 for $3.95. "U.S. Type Coins, An Illustrated History of The Federal Coinage" by Norman Stack (one of the founders of Stack's). All I can say is excellent. In a time with no personal computers, Stack did an excellent job organizing coin chapters that allowed for different methods of type set collecting.  Edited by Ken_3567
04/06/2007 10:18 am
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United States
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Everyone has mentioned the Red Book but does anyone use the blue book. I have a 1982 Red Book and the prices in there are about what coins are actually selling for today. |
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United States
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I only purchase a Red Book every four or five years because it is a poor price guide, however it is a good reference book. I think any collector new or old should have a grading book as for myself I use the ANA grading standards by Whitman and Making the grad by Coin Values. Another good reference book is the CherryPickers Guide and Looking through Lincoln cents by our member here Chuck Daughtrey. Bruce. |
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United States
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If you like US Commemoratives, try:
Commemorative Coins of the United States
Identification and Price Guide
by Anthony Swiatek
- the second edition was published in 2001
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These two books are absolutely invaluable to me: 1) The Pocket Guide to Australian Coins & Banknotes - 14th Edition - by Greg McDonald 2) The Official Red Book - A Guide Book of United States coins 2006 - by R.S.Yeoman  |
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United States
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With the exception of Looking Through Lincoln Cents by Charles D. Daughtrey, I would suggest NONE. Basically all books are a thing of the past. I collect the Red Book and it used to be the only book for coins back about 30 years ago. Lately the entire book has sank to the bottom of usefulness. The 2006 Edetion was so full of errors I sent a multi page letter to Whitman Publishing tabulating all the errors. The 2007 Edition came out a year early and still full of errors. Now consider the 2008 edition which must have been being put together many months ago. What good is a 2008 book written in 2006? Errors in prices, missing info, wrong mintages and even pages missing numbers. Unfortunately I must keep up the collection since I started way, way back. Consider the fact that you can retrive up to date, latest, accurate coin information write here on the internet why would you want a book on a shelf? You can verify any coin facts through numerous resources and even discuss them with people like your doing now. So why have something on a shelf that collects dust? |
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The admins and Moderators are working on a sticky list it will be available "shortly" and the books that have been listed on these posts will be included so we have a good reference list.
so keep listing your books for us to review.
rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
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rggoodie, I tried the link but it's not working  |
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I apologize...the link does work but I get the following message "You do not have access to this forum" so I'm assuming it's limited to moderators & admin.
sorry I had to remove the link as the list is not yet complete.
See my post above for explanation.
Richard
rggoodie
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United States
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Redbook/Bluebook...same thing as far as the info...mintage figures, etc. The RedBook tends to have better pics and comes spiral bound...very cool. Bluebook prices are more in line with what you could actually get for coins you sell...but with that said...no book is really accurate. Everyone should also have the ANA grading book, whether you agree with the grading standards or not...it's the grading scale that virtually all of the U.S. hobby uses. The rest depends on what you collect. Breens Ency, certainly. Krause for foreign coins, definately. Haxby for obsolete banknotes, although the 4 vol set is $750-$800, it's still great research material. Get a book for everything you like. Specialty books abound...small size paper, u.s. tokens, national banknotes, Buffalo nickels, Seated coinage, Unusual world coins...the list goes on and on. You can never have too much info, right? And READ the books...just don't put them on a shelf. Read the articles and use the info, otherwise you've wasted your money in buying it. tradernick |
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The most important book of all, the checkbook!
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The most important book of all, the checkbook!
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United States
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Coin World ALMANAC any edition except the 2000 edition. I always keep my copies (I have all of the editions, they are pretty much the same but each has some information not found in the others) close at hand and refer to it FREQUENTLY. It is a GREAT general reference volume. If you are a Coin World subscriber you can join Amos Advantage and get the hardbound 1990 edition from them for $5.
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