Coins Books

This is a nice starter set for anyone just learning about coin collecting. It's a bit more challenging than collecting the state quarters so if this is for a small child they will need some help reading the material and how to manage the coins. Many students in 3rd grade will study "money" as part of the curriculum and this would make a great package for an adult or older child to share with a 3rd grader, but it's probably too much for most 3rd graders on their own. Enjoy!

I didn;t receive the items, they said they were shipped to my address at
work and I never received them. I asked that they be resent. i had gotten these for my three grandboys last christmas and they are enjoying them.

Don't pay any attention to the photo of the box. If you want the book, this is the kit for you, but if you really want supplies, go elsewhere. It is very limited, and not at all what the pictures shows.

The only reference I'll ever need. Fast and easy on mintages, values, double strikes and much more. By having this information on hand, you will be digging back through your collection again double checking for things you may have missed. Its like having a new pile of Nickels to check out. If your a serious collector, this ones a must.

At approx. 320 pps. this is certainly not a demure or weedy tome, and as a 2007 publication it is definitely timely. Having said that, I believe that this book is not an essential acquisition for the straight forward Buffalo Nickel collector (that book would be Lange's 3rd Ed. on the Buff). However, if you are a variety collector it is right up your alley. The book's discussion of the general issue coins is uncannily similar to the format of Lange, and the authors propose to provide the same information as Lange with a couple of added kickers in the form of historical pricing information by grade, and population studies of NGC and PCGS slabbed coins by year and mint. While I found the historical information marginally helpful but definitely welcome, the population guide was a really, really smart idea and a big help. I'm sorry to say that the year by year analysis of the business strikes seemed a bit paltry in the information department. However, the section on the Proof strikes has a lot of new (to me) information and is a big improvement on Lange's book. The real strength of this book is all of the time and effort spent on the known varieties found in the Buffalo world. The lists within are quite extensive and are accompanied by numerous helpful and unhelpful blown-up pictures. A really great addition to this panoply is the inclusion of 'de-listed' varities, i.e. those previously catalogued varieties that have subsequently been deemed not to be. A large part of the book is taken up with a discussion of what a variety makes and related information not specific to the Buffalo. At present, there are numerous used copies of this book available on amazon at prices well below the retail or issue price. As such I would encourage you to acquire it because at the lower prices it is a huge value.

I have the seventh edition. However they all stop at 1964 so with a few corrections, any edition should work. The coins are easily identifiable with monochrome pictures of front and back. Periodically there is an explanation paragraph. Probably due to limited space many coins are omitted. For the most part it is a catalog.

Hard to believe nobody has reviewed this work, but it serves to confirm my view that these reviews are pearls before swine anyway. Simply put, this is THE classic handbook for world coins for a generation of collectors; first edition, 1964. This resurrection 1984 edition by the Friedbergs is not on the best paper nor bound for heavy use and the 3-grade pricing is an unnecessary nod toward the competition: The Standard Catalog of World Coins by Chester Krause and Clifford Mishler. The SCWC is far more comprehensive than Yeoman but to get the same coverage you will need both the 19th and 20th Century editions, price about $100. Yeoman is still worth having because it is compact, because it lists coins in historical rather than denominational order, and because of its numbering system - still in use and the most sensible ever developed for world coinages.

This book was a little out dated and not very fluent reading. Might be good for a beginner, many of the questions were redundant.

Alan Herbert addresses questions from the most fundamental to the most esoteric questions concerning numismatics. His answers are generous, eloquent and, above-all-else, precise. This is a MUST have addition to any numismatic library.

My daughter is in Kindergarten and is working on addition and subtraction in her class. I bought this book as a supplement because she loves money, especially since our family instituted a $.25 bad word "game." In my opinion this book does a good job of tieing the different money types together, i.e. 5 pennies can be 1 nickel. What it doesn't do, and this may just be my preference, is to force the reader to identify amounts outside of .25, .50, and 1.00 denominations (with varying degrees of course.)

Two of our children adopted from China and Russia were having a hard time learning how to count money, and were not understanding the concepts. This coin book is big, easy to handle, colorful and was very helpful to them. I would recommend it.

I've been collecting circulated coins since I was a child. One day my dad took me to the department store and we bought a series of Whitman coin folders.

The Eisenhower-Anthony Dollars coin folder has plenty of slots to keep every major variation of the circulated sets of both dollars. The book is identical in size and design as the majority of their coin folders, meaning it will look great next to your other coin books.

On this particular book, there are 6 extra slots for the Eisenhower dollars (one of my favorite coins) where you can show the reverses (which in case you are unfamiliar with these coins there are two major reverses: (1) an Apollo 9 patch design, and (2) a bicentennial design. There is a single extra slot for the Susan B. Anthony dollars, but fortunately the Anthony dollar one has one reverse.

The folder also has a fairly complete (and interesting) history of both dollars. My version of the folder actually includes updated circulation amounts for all the coins, including the 1999 Anthony dollars.

My suggestion is that this gift would be perfect for a child who is having visits from the tooth fairy. The fairy could easily buy some Ikes and Anthony dollars in anticipation of future tooth business. And then the next morning you can collect the fairy's gifts with your child.

Whitman Coin Folders, the industry standard in coin housing, offers another solid coin folder designed to house Eisenhower Dollars from 1971-1978 and Susan B. Anthony Dollars from 1979-1981. Be warned, that the book does not include the latest information on the 1999 release of the Anthony dollars, however, there is space in the book to write them in.

Doug Winter's updated reference on Dahlonega gold is a superb work and a vast improvement over the previous edition. The information on strike, color, surfaces, luster, and eye appeal are complemented by interesting "personal observations" and updated information on die varieties. Of course, the condition census is a moving target but believed to be current at the time of publication.

There has been some criticism of the photography. Actually, Mary Winter is a superb gold coin photographer, and I have seen color photographs of these same coins taken by her (they are available on the Heritage Auctions coin website if you search the auction archives for Green Pond Collection, FUN 2004). I believe that the publisher bungled the presentation of the images (too small and not enoguh contrast). This will undoubtedly be corrected in future editions.

Overall, anyone with an interest in Dahlonega gold coins will find this to be a valuable and important reference.

There is much to like in this book. It is scholarly in its approach to population data condition, census data, and rarity estimates. It discusses well various die varities, and the history surrounding the mint, although brief, is informative. It is in the area of photography that this book falls dismally flat. It is, after all, a book on gold coins, and one of the major appeals of gold has historically been its color. Yet there is not one single color photograph in the book. They are all black and white, almost thumbnail in size, grainy and lacking in detail. When photos are enlarged to show some detail, a D/D for example, they fail to adequately illustrate the variety they are meant to. Compare this to some other similar books, David Lange's "Complete Guide" series for example, and you will see what a disservice these photographs do to the rest of the book. The photographer is listed as Mary Winter, who I presume is related to the author, probably his wife. While it's a noble goal to offer employment to a family member, maybe some other task should have been offered her rather than make her the photographer on what otherwise would have been a fine book. Having said that, I am still glad I have it for the information it provides, ergo the three stars, that, with better photographs, would have been five.

I received my copy the same day I did a Grant Commemorative. I turned to the photo example to see how the detail on the reverse around the house of my new acquisition compared. I couldn't see any in the photo,the pictures are actual size and too small! Too bad, I consider this a serious shortcoming from what otherwise would have been a fine book.

This is a great book on U.S. gold and silver commemorative coins. Anything by written by Q. David Bowers on coins is a fun read. The book covers both the classic era (1892-1954) and the modern era. Today, a type set of the classic 50 coin silver commemoratives would run approximately $30,000 in Mint State 64 condition, $60,000 in MS65, and $140,000 in MS66. Slightly less than double those figures would be needed if you wanted to have a complete classic 144 silver commemorative coin collection. If you aspire to collect classic U.S. commemorative coins, you must buy this book.

Dave Bowers discusses the statistics, background, and key to collecting each coin. Time and time again, Dave explains that coins laden with abrasions and bagmarks were the result of the original planchet surfaces not striking up fully at the mint or that the coins were simply mishandled at the mint. And he encourages you to keep looking for a finer specimen. Critical information for those looking for exceptional coins.

Dave uses the Lafayette Dollar as an example of how the price increases as you go up the grade ladder. He also advises what grades he thinks are getting the best value for the money; he likes MS64 ($4,000) and MS65 ($12,000). A triple increase in the price of the Lafayette (or $8,000) for one step up in grade is a big difference! It would have been appreciated if Dave had gone a step further and explained what you actually get for the money, beyond the "label," when you go from a MS63 to MS64 to MS65 to MS66. Perhaps it would be overkill to do it for every coin; but, an example could have been made using the 1928 Hawaiian. I was delighted to learn that undipped Hawaiians often have a yellowish tint; I thought the yellow was the result of overdipping or a bad bath!!! How many coin dealers know that the inner "circle" or "line" often found near the obverse rim of the Panama-Pacific half dollar is due to die characteristics?

Some readers may be disappointed that there isn't more of an emphasis on investing; but, Q. David Bowers is above all, a smart coin dealer. He knows that emphasizing investment isn't what sustains the coin collecting hobby; especially, with the roller coaster pricing of commemoratives. It's the collector that sustains the hobby and Dave is always trying to encourage the collector side of us.

The collector's book has holes the size of the coins cut out, with labels under every hole with the specific year, mint, and sometimes other information about the coin for the hole. I have found it very hard to keep a collection of circulating coins without whitman portfolios.

I took off a star because of two flaws in its design. Most importantly, the backing is very thin, and clearly shows every coin you've pressed into the other side. Also, the coins stay in place by pressing the surrounding posterboard outwards. That means that the force used to put the coin into the book is far more than the force holding it in, and it cane sometimes be a struggle to get a coin to fit.

This book offers housing for all half dollars from the year 1964 - 1985. Overall, a good holder for the average collector, but does not offer protection from dust and elements in the air.

"A Matter of Pride" is a fun romance, with a good heroine in Eden, and the hopelessly confused Ryeburn as the hero, but certain anachronisms like the surgeon at the end who uses anti-septic methods sticks out in Regency England. Also the tension and the coincidendal misunderstandings or overhearings is overdone here. Could have been better. 3 stars, and great motto "Never Forget Your dreams"

This is better than the first in the series. Eden is a woman with her own mind and she will not let anyone especially a man try to control it or her. Trevor St. John, Earl of Ryeburn is looking for the perfect English wife, one that will obey and not even think for herself. However he runs into Eden and all bets are off. Things take off from the first meeting and well you will have to read it if you want to know what happens next. I laughed and cheered my way through this book. I am sure you will too. I can't wait for the third one to come out.