World Coins & Paper Money

With the expanded third edition of his award-winning 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, author, researcher, and long-time coin dealer Harlan J. Berk has created a volume that appeals to both novice collectors and avid numismatists. With his engaging narrative and hundreds of fullcolor photographs, Berk takes readers on a journey back in time to the earliest days of coin minting. Each coin in this book ranks as one of the greatest relics of antiquity. Individually, they stand out as unique pieces of...

In this wonderfully illustrated book, award-winning author Harvey B. Richer takes readers on a journey of 100 of Canada's Greatest Coins, which have affected the world and caught collectors' imaginations. Inside, you'll find rarity, value, popularity, beauty, invention, and historical significance, among other things.

This book contains information about Canadian paper money; pricing, history, and issues.

Award winning author Robert Leonard takes you around the world as he explores the development of money from the Stone Age to the Internet Age. You will find a treasure trove inside this colorful, entertaining, and authoritative book. Gold, Silver, and blocks of salt. Massive Yap stones and little cocoa beans. Elephant tails, iron nails, whale teeth, human skulls, and hundreds of other examples of odd and curious money. Each has a fascinating story and holds valuable lessons for anyone who...

These early dated coins form one of the first links between medieval and modern coinage. Anno Domini's way of dating coins using Latin script did not begin until the mid-13th century, and did not become popular in Europe until three centuries later. It took the author 15 years to separate the few coins with dates from the many. The First Edition of this book was comparable to the out-of-print work by Albert Frey in 1915. Today, when an early dated coin is sold, whether in Europe or America, it...

The Guide Book of United States Paper Money is a collector's guide to U.S. paper currency from the Civil War era to date. This book provides a catalog and price guide for notes from $10,000 down to $1 face value, Treasury notes of the War of 1812, encased postage stamps, Fractional Currency, and error notes. It also covers topics such as signatures on U.S. currency; grading standards; star notes; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; how cash is made and distributed; and how to collect...

A reference for all Canadian government paper money, "The Standard." Numerous changes and additions have been made to the 34th edition. Prices have been revised to more accurately represent the current market and provide a better idea of market value.

This 852 page illustrated standard catalog comes w/ over 8,500 full color pictures. A list of 22,000+ coin types included, w/ hundreds of new listings and enlarged sections from over 2,500 years of gold coins from Ancient Greece to Zanzibar, dating back to the 6th centruy BC. The globally accepted Friedberg numbering System is the accepted approach for classifying, identifying , purchasing, and disposing of gold coins. This book is an essential item for any trader, collector, or library. ...

Foreword by Christopher R. McDowell Only a few weeks after the "Shot Heard 'Round the World," the American Continental Congress authorized its very first issuance of paper money. Continental Currency was based on the hope of a young nation's future and a war for liberty, not on a solid foundation of silver or gold. Despite being plagued by counterfeiting, depreciation, and distrust in the marketplace, this currency marked a great forward step for Britain's freedom-seeking colonies, and its...

Covers tokens used in Canada West, Canada East, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Price Edward Island from 1770 to the early 1900s.

The second edition of Canadian Numismatic Medals has been released. The First Edition, released in 1991, covered only the medals of the Canadian Numismatic Association Conventions for the period 1954 to 1991. The newly revised second edition has been expanded to include the national organization, the CNA, and the two regional organizations the APNA and the ONA. This 152 page catalogue (8�" x 11", spiral bound) lists all the souvenir medals issued by these three Canadian Numismatic...

This book, written by an expert in the field and drawing on recent research, aims to put Britain's eighteenth-century provincial token coinage into the context of the currency problems of the time. On the basis of a wide range of both documentary and secondary sources it examines its major manufacturers and their intention, and through profiles of many of the issuers involved it sets out to give a living dimension to a bygone monetary phenomenon.

This book tells the inside story of one of the most popular series of modern gold and silver coins - the Chinese Panda. Inside you will find Large photos of Gold, Silver, Platinum Panda coins from 1982-2013 Mintage and population figures - the keys to understanding rarity Weights and fineness for each coin What to look for and what to avoid Bonus section on Chinese Unicorn coins For anyone interested in Panda coins the Gold and Silver Panda Coin Buyers Guide 3rd Edition is 368 pages of...

On every continent. In more than 50 countries. Wherever gold coins are bought and sold. The world standard reference. New. Revised. Expanded. Now, bigger and more complete than ever! The indispensable classic reference: 832 pages, completely revised and updated. More than 8,500 photos, nearly ALL of them new. 2,000+ listings of coin types, with sections expanded and hundreds of new listings. Ottoman Empire coinage completely revised. From the 6th cent. BC to date, over 2,500 years of gold...

This 394 page guide has listings for 687 different coins, along with about 1000 images for 600 of these coins. A few highlights of this illustrated reference guide are: Images for 600 coins as follows: Regular Business Issue Coins, Specimen Coins, Variety Coins, Special Issue Commemorative Coin Nearly 1000 images to help identify coin features Pricing using nearly 4,600 price points 20 obverse images to assist with grading breif history of the monarch found on the obverse ...

This 632 Page guide contains over 13,500 listings representing more than 15,400 different coins and sets, using nearly 129,000 price points and 37 different grades. Nearly 2,600 new listings have been added since the previous issue. Other highlights of this price guide are: Listings and pricing for over 9,000 business denomination coins from 1 cent to 2 dollars and over 300 business denomination sets Listings and pricing for hundreds of variety coins not listed in any other guides, including...

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...

Whitman Encyclopedia of Mexican Money Vol 1

World Paper Money Errors by Morland FischerThroughout World Paper Money Errors Morland Fisher provides you an avenue into the fascinating and rarely explored area of numismatics, foreign paper money errors. For the first time, numismatists have access to a full color price guide for international currency, rather than only domestic notes. Fischer's ample collection exemplifies rare errors that result in the printing process to produce intriguing and unique notes. Odd shapes, upside down...