Type Coin Books

Guide Book of United States Type Coins, 3rd EditionThis comprehensive 320-page full-color book details how to begin the ideal numismatic pursuit: a collection of United States coins by type. Major updates to the 2nd edition. Book 3 of the series.

Information essential for purchasing Barber coinage. Includes history, rarity ratings, and date and mint mark analysis.

Guide Book of Modern United States Dollar CoinsThe Bowers Series is a popular Whitman Publishing library of numismatic books, each covering a different segment of the hobby. This time around, volume #22 explores the full range of modern U.S. dollar coins: Eisenhower, Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, Native American, and Presidential. These coins, the successors to the silver Morgan and Peace dollars of yesteryear, have been minted from 1971 to the present day in different sizes, alloys, and...

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