Coins Books

This is like the Red Book of Canadian coins. This book gets better every year I buy it.

This is THE standard reference work for Canadian token collectors.
It is profusely illustrated with B&W photos of all major token types.
It is laid out by province and it's fairly simple to find your way through the book to the token in question.
All-in-all, a "must have" for anyone interested in collecting Canadian tokens.

Recognized by their characteristic blue covers, Whitman Publishing has been making tri-fold coin collecting folders for years. This book, Canada Small Cents (Number one) is an update of their 1950s Canadian Small Cent Collection (catalog number 9062).

The book has slots for Canadian pennies from 1920 to 1988. The total number of coins minted is listed under each year (which should help you figure out how rare certain years are). It includes slots for easier to find variants including the 1947, 1953, 1965, and 1985 varieties. Like older Whitman coin folders, it includes a brief history of the coins and technical composition / weight specifications on a paper flap that covers one of the pages. Unfortunately the historical information does not tell you how to tell apart the various variants, nor does it list which years the sovereign's portrait was changed to match changes in the crown or Queen Elizabeth's changing appearance. It also does not have extra slots to show the observe sides featuring the English/Canadian Monarch.

Despite the lack of history, the slots are well manufactured and coins easily lock into place. Furthermore, the next book (Small Cent Canadian Volume 2 (Official Whitman Coin Folder)) has plenty of extra slots in which you can store your King George V, King George VI, and various Queen Elizabeth II obverse examples. The best feature of this book is very little space was wasted on its three coin pages, meaning each page squeezes slots for 25 coins.

I'm very happy to have an updated folder to store my Canadian cents in! This folder makes an excellent gift for young and old coin collectors. Please consider looking at Whitman's other Canadian coin folders that are currently available:

- Small Cent Canadian Volume 2 (Official Whitman Coin Folder)
- 25 Cent Canadian Folder Vol. 2 (Official Whitman Coin Folder)
- 25 Cent Canadian Folder Vol. 4 (Official Whitman Coin Folder)

Jigsaw Jones is a modern detective. He talks like children talk today, he is "cool", and children can identify with him. It would be unfair to say that "The case of the Christmas Snowman" is his best case ever because all of Jigsaw's cases are good. My children love him and collect all his books, this one is no exception.

An excellent way to learn about coin price trends

This book is one of the best I have ever read. It has a great plot, realistic characters, and is in general awesome.

This is truly a "Coin Atlas".
Its attributes are:
* A unique country-by-country analysis
* Covers twenty-six centuries of coinage
* Incorporates the very latest (copy right 1990) numismatic research
* Over 100 maps
* Over 1800 illustrations
* Concise table of easy reference
No one book can be an end all is all book but this one tries and seems to have covered most everything it set out to do.

David W. Lange's new book on coin boards of the 1930 and 1940 is amazing. Those expecting routine treatment of the subject are in for a real surprise and a treat.

Although filled with the kinds of detail and personalities coin collectors love to read about, Coin Collecting Boards of the 1930s & 1940s is much more. It is a numismatic window to times and places that most of us know only from classic movies and the occasional PBS special on the Great Depression and New Deal era. The excellent typography and page layout, combined with generous sections of color photos and top notch writing, place Coin Collecting Boards of the 1930s & 1940s several notches above most numismatic books. (I fully expect David's work to take multiple honors at next years NLG awards!)

Coin Collecting Boards of the 1930s & 1940s belongs in the library of any coin collector who wants to know more than the superficial. But its appeal also lies beyond just coin collectors. The careful integration of people, hobbies, economics, history and coin boards suggest this book should be one of the standard references for Americana, advertising and antique aficionados.

You can read more about Coin Collecting Boards of the 1930s & 1940s on David Lange's web site at: http://www.coincollectingboards.com. However, this one should also be on the shelves of mass market booksellers such as Amazon.com and others.

No gimmicks, Highly recommended!

Barring Q. David Bowers The Expert's Guide to Collecting & Investing in Rare Coins: Secrets Of Success, Scott A. Travers The Coin Collector's Survival Manual, is one of the best and most important numismatic books ever.

An extensive and detailed guide with relevant and up-to-date information, a great manual for novice, expert numismatists, and investors.

You will appreciate how Scott A. Travers skillfully leads the reader like a good conductor page by page in a symphony of numismatic enlightenment, the coin collector knowledge evolves

All pictures are in B&W (except 16 pages of glossy high quality color photos)

Though geared for the US Coin Collectors market most of the subjects discussed in it will be useful worldwide. This numismatic manual is masterfully written, simple to use, very well organized, easy to read and understand.

see also:

The Expert's Guide to Collecting & Investing in Rare Coins: Secrets Of Success

A California Gold Rush history: Featuring the treasure from the S.S. Central America : a source book for the Gold Rush historian and numismatist

The History of United States Coinage

United States Gold Coins: An Illustrated History

Early U.s. Gold Coin Varieties: A Study of Die States, 1795-1834

The History of United States Coinage: As Illustrated by the Garrett Collection

Commemorative Coins of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia

The Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection Edition, Edition #2 (Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection)

Photograde: Official Photographic Grading Guide for United States Coins, 19th Edition

The Official American Numismati Association Grading Standards For United States Coins (Official American Numismatic Association Grading Standards for United States Coins)


High Profit from Rare Coin Investments

I had the honor of being a personal friend of the author over a period of several years. Billed as "The Incredible Lamont" the main thrust of his early career was escape artistry, however over time he turned his vast talents towards stage illusion and slight of hand.

I spent much time with this man and watched him develop many of the techniques illustrated in this book. But don't ask ME how they're done... I couldn't even begin to guess!

Lamont's innovations in the art of coin and card manipulation as well as other forms of close-up slight of hand are well known among magicians today and rightly so. This book is a must for any magician of whatever skill level.