Type Coin Books

Cash In Your Coins-3rd EditionThis book is great for anyone who has a collection of old coins. How rare are they? What are they worth? Should you sell? Where do you even begin? Beth Deisher is an award-winning journal and retired editor of Coin World. She has more than 35 years of experience helping people understand and collect coins and paper currency. Deisher shows you how to identify what you own, how to create an inventory, how to pick out extra-valuable coins, how to value a large...

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.

Volume #20 in Whitman's best-selling Bowers Series covers three classic U.S. coin denominations: the dimes, quarters, and half dollars designed by Charles E. Barber, chief engraver of the U.S. Mint. These classic silver coins were first made in 1892, and their production lasted to the eve of America's entry into World War I.In this colorfully illustrated book, the workhorses of late-19th and early-20th-century American commerce are given the famous Q. David Bowers treatment: insightful study,...

Q Bowers Guide to Liberty Seated Silver CoinsVolume #21 in Whitman's best-selling Bowers Series covers the full expanse of Liberty Seated coinage�half dimes, dimes, twenty-cent pieces, quarters, half dollars, Gobrecht dollars, silver dollars, and trade dollars. This classic U.S. coin design features the Goddess of Liberty seated with a cap and pole. It was first used in 1836 and ceased in 1891, having survived the Hard Times Era and the Civil War and its aftermath, finally retiring during...

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.