Publications

A fully updated and expanded edition. Includes a comprehensive year-by-year analysis, historical pricing data, and collecting tips.

This book is divided into three parts: Planchet errors, Die errors, and strike errors. Each section is broken down by date and mintmark and many photos are provided.

Dr. George G. Wilkins advertised his trade by counter-stamping coins in circulation, particularly one-cent coins. The author provides us with a history of counterstamped coins and an interesting profile of Dr. Wilkins.

In the authors' own words, this new edition of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change, dispels the myths of error coins and assists you in discovering, marketing, and researching rare coins that you can find in your pocket change. More than 350 close-up illustrations, key identifying details and current market values help you decipher the difference between proper and error issues and varying types of coins. In addition, this unique must-have how-to also includes: Coverage of Lincoln Memorial...

It is often forgotten that between 1942 and 1946, 425,000 German, Italian and Japanese prisoner of war were held at 700 POW camps in 46 U.S. States. They got here on troop ships that would have otherwise returned empty.This book is about the money, or chits that POWs used for their expenses in the camp, for cigarettes, candy or other items. The authors are both regonised experts on the topic.Years in the making, this is the most comprehensive book ever done on the subject. There are brief...

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For 50 years, the Franklin Mint has been produc-ing beautiful collectibles now found in millions of homes across the world. It all started in 1964 when founder Joe Segel minted a silver coin honoring the late General Douglas MacArthur, and soon the company was creating collectible coins, commem-orative medals, sparkling pendants, decorative Christmas ornaments and other valuable art. The product line then expanded into entertainment, with breathtaking creations like the Civil War chess set,...

The Numismatourist is the first book of its kind as a world-wide travel guide for the numismatist. It is also for the numismatist who is traveling, either on vacation or business, and wishes to visit those places that of are interest to the hobby or profession. Inside you will find a numismatic travel guide, listing over 175 places in 75 countries open to the public, with almost 100 of these described in detail with pictures that are spread over North, Central, and South America, the...

Learn about the basics of coins and money, handling, storing and collecting including facinating coin facts and history.

Reprinted in Spring 2009 - A handbook of the rarest, most popular and desirable Morgan varieties. Ideal for dealers.

The primary objective of this book is the presentation and advancement of knowledge of many of the top Morgan Dollar die varieties. The evolution in the study of a series requires a more in depth understanding of those coins. Not just that they exist, but how and why they were created and what factors contributed to their creation. The first chapter explains what criteria was used to select the top varieties. The beginning of the book presents the die making process and provides an analysis on...

Learn about errors, varieties and how die varieties are made. Book provides valuable for all varieties and is a must of the Liberty Head nickel collector.

Reference covering Mercury dime varieties with over 55 doubled, 50 repunched mintmarks and 350 photographs. Values are given for all varieties covered in this book.

This book is a history of the events leading up to the elimination of silver from US coinage. Information about coinage is also present.

Hobby legend Kenneth Bressett covers large-size, small-size, and fractional paper money in the newly revised and updated 8th edition of the Guide Book of United States Currency, one of the best-selling paper-money books of all time. A perennial favorite among hobbyists, United States Currency appeals especially to beginning and intermediate collectors, but its solid and engaging numismatic text (written by the longtime senior editor of the Guide Book of United States Coins) is valuable for...

The publication of a new revised fifth edition of Overton's reference manual on early half dollars, renamed in 2005, United States Early Half Dollar Die Varieties 1794-1836, by Donald L. Parsley is now available. Don Parsley, son-in-law of A1 C. Overton, has been collecting and studying early United States hald dollars for over forty years. He helped Al with the first edition of the book and has personally collected this exciting series of U.S. coinage including the Overton reference...

Whitman's United States Gold Counterfeit Detection Guide is a full-color, 224-page reference for identifying fake gold coins, from dollars to double eagles. Detailed text and high-resolution close-up photographs show specific diagnostics for nearly 200 frequently encountered counterfeits. California fractional gold and commemoratives are also studied. The text includes expert advice from professional graders, authenticators, and dealers; more than two dozen "rules of thumb" (with...

United States Proof Coins by John W. Dannreuther is the only full-length Proof Gold book of it's kind. This 2-part volume set on Proof Gold has nearly 2,000 full-color illustrations and photos of every variety of Unites States proof gold coins. It is the precision of these illustrated details that put this book in a league of its own. Before digital print, these die varieties and differences in strikes could only be described through text. With this new release, we are able to see clearly the...

Designed to enlighten and educate, this book offers the reader inside information on cameo and brilliant proof coinage.