Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #126920 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Professional coin authenticator and photographer Alan Herbert has been collecting coins for more than forty years.

Customer Reviews

Very Useful for the Beginner
Great stuff for the beginner in this book - small histories of US denominations, coin categories to buy with caution, useful pictorial guide on grading, basics on coin shows, great tips on preservation. Probably not woth a buy for the experienced, but it is called coin collecting 101. Could have done without all the pages of state quarters. Seriously, it looks like the author was just filling pages. Overall all though, worth a buy for the novice.

Beginners start here
I've very recently started collecting coins and I found this book to be the perfect introduction.

Excellent Starter Book
As a new collector I was looking for a book in which I would find answers rather quickly. This is a great book for beginner coin collectors.