Coin Collecting Books

Can't make heads or tails of numismatics? Welcome to a treasure-trove of information on numismatics ? or rather, coin collecting. This hands-on guide escorts you through the world's oldest hobby, covering topics such as how to decide which coins to collect, ways to protect them, buying and selling on the Internet, attending coin shows, to assembling and diversifying your collection.

Discover how to:

• Store your collection correctly
• Understand how age affects value
• Locate rare and expensive coins
• Get savvy with avoiding fakes
• Get kids or loved ones involved

This handy guide is the essential tool for novice and intermediate coin collectors! First-time collectors gain valuable basics for a lifetime of enjoyable and successful collecting, while experienced collectors discover new tips to hone their skills.

Coin Collecting 101 covers the essentials of coin collecting at an affordable price collectors will love. This fully illustrated and indexed guide is an easy read for all ages, with all the details needed for skilled collecting. Grading, errors, current market factors, and glossary of terms are covered in chapters including How To Get Started, How does Coin Grading Work, Determining Coin Values, and Buying Coins on the Internet. Edited by one of the foremost authorities in numismatics, this supreme resource features the benefits of true experience and research.

• Fully illustrated for easy identification
• Features a portable size for taking to shows
• Affordable price

Considered the most highly acclaimed and preferred of its kind, the newest edition of the universal coin-grading encyclopedia by James F. Ruddy showcases over 1000 enhanced coin-grading pictures and adjectival descriptions of regular issue U.S. coin types from 1793 to date. Designated in 1972 as an Official Grading Guide of the American Numismatic Association, Photograde is widely accepted as the most complete grading book ever printed. In fact, over 500,000 copies have been sold to date.

This is the official grading book of The American Numismatic Assocition.

Actual customer reviews:

• "EXCELLENT book for those trying to learn to grade there coins. I HIGHLY reccomend this item. Details every grade, and what characteristics it take for the coin to make the grade."
• "Easy to understand and use. Photos extremely helpful. Essential tool for novice and experienced collector alike."
• "This book, simply put, is an absolute neccessity for all coin collectors. With Kenneth Bresset editing the book and Q. David Bowers narrating it, the book has to be awesome...."

This book illustrates and explains with precise descriptions and digital images how you can determine the exact condition of a coin.

Here is a coin grading volume so complete that—like its author, PCGS—it indeed sets the standard for grading coins.

Inside this illustrated guide you will find:

• The standards for grading all United States coins, including precise definitions of Mint State and circulated grades
• An all-new section on how to grade America's 50-State quarters
• The fundamentals of counterfeit detection
• The secrets of handling and storing your collection
• State-of-the-art techniques used to recognize 'doctored' coins
• Over 600 detailed illustrations

This detailed guide is the only book on the market that encompases so many facets of coin grading and counterfeit detection.

The Presidential One Dollar Coin Act of 2005 was passed to honor those who have served the US as Commander in Chief. You can share a piece of this history by starting your own coin collection! Four coins are issued each year (beginning in 2007.)

This sturdy folder contains storage for all coins that are and will be issued, as well as a full-color, 64 page book of presidential knowledge and trivia. Packed with biographical and political facts about 41 men who have shaped and changed the history of our country.