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1999 Handbook of United States Coins: Official Blue Book of United States Coins (Serial)

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This book by R.S. Yeoman is called the "redbook" by coin collectors. It's been around for decades and is a comprehensive volume of all U.S. coins including colonial coins, U.S. mint coins from 1793, and even Hawaiian coins. No serious collector/dealer is without a redbook. It's also good for beginners as it has good pictures, shows the position of mintmarks, shows mintages, and lists prices. Each type has a section on grading also.

According to the "Numismatics Fair Price Guide," its prices are very low. I like "A Guide Book Of United States Coins" a whole lot better. See my review on that one.

This is the greatest coin price guide available

This is the guide that coin dealers use to buy coins from the general public. Do you want to know what to expect to receive for your coins? Buy this book. Unless you know how to grade coins use the lowest price in each row. I've been a coin dealer for a few years and this book does exactly what it purports to do and that is to be a guide for buying coins wholesale. With all due respect to the writer from New York, no book can tell you which coins are going to be worth more in the future. Just as no investment guide can tell you which stocks will be worth more in the future. Run from anyone who says otherwise. By the way. If any reader wishes to sell coins then please contact me. Mention this review and I will pay 10% above the prices in this guide.

This is an absolutely essential book for the collector of U.S. Coins. Now in its 53rd edition, this book just gets better and better. A must buy for any U.S. coin collector.

this is the price guide to buy coin buy but the best one to sell buy is the red book

I found this book to be one of the worst I've bought. The information is very inaccurate. Great for someone buying coinage but very poor for the seller, not a fair way of doing business. I feel that this book was writen by a seller for the porposes of cheating buyers. When a book is set out to the public as an official handbook the information should be accurate. I find the pricing indexes to be very low at best. I buy and sell as a hobby and these are not the prices I pay nor are they the prices I sell at. I figure on average the prices are 200-500% below what they should be. I feel this is a poorly researched book that should not be taken seriously, nor should it be used as a standard for your dealings. My sugestion don't buy it find another price guide. Yes I do own this book and would not sell it do to the facts that I have stated, this is my loss so don't let it be yours.

This is a great book.I discovered that my 1937 penny is really very valuable.

It's so so. Doesn't tell you which coins are going to be popular in a few years..necessary for the beginner, but not enough for the expert who wants to know which coins are going to rise in value soon. To improve this you should write a sequel or make a revised edition telling us which coins are valuable in the long run and which are popular coins now. After I read it I learned little. I don't think a lot of people will buy it if they already know what's in the book.

Gotta put something here... I think I forgot to tell you who I am in my last review on this great little book.