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Strike It Rich with Pocket Change

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Not all coins with irregularities have the high auction or sales values into the tens of thousands of dollars you hear about from newspapers, TV spots, or trade media. Some errors from minting coins are worth only a few dollars up to twenty or so. This is nonetheless obviously a large multiple of the face value of the coins, enough to make this field of interest to many.

Allen and Potter's book can be used in two ways. With its many magnified photographs of errors in specific coins, it can be used as a reference for identifying and confirming errors; and in relation to this, a pricing guide for such an errors.

Many errors, however, are minute or can to the untrained eye appear a natural part of the striking of an individual coin. Beginners or less experienced persons might not pick up such errors. For these, the many different types of errors covered with descriptions and close-ups serve as a survey of errors. By reviewing these, one learns about kinds of errors which can have value to collectors.

Since coins are being designed and struck all the time and there are countless numbers continually being circulated, not all errors can possibly be recorded or known about. There's always the possibility anyone, even an amateur, can discover an error in examining coins. Strike It Rich orients one to be able to spot many known errors and to possibility find an unknown one. Starting with the 5-page section "Coin Terms and Definitions" and then moving on to the descriptions of particular recognized errors is a reliable, efficient way to get the basic orientation.

This was a very helpful book,written by experts.
I was able to increase my knowledge of variety coins
and have some new directions in my collecting.

I enjoyed this book. If you are new to coin collecting I would say....get it! I purchased a few copies as Christmas gifts. If you have pocket change you may as well take a peak at it before you spend it. I'm not a committed coin collector but it's fun to look over the small amount of weekly change we have prior to spending it.

Ken Potter and Brian Allen's book is updated with many more new varieties that stand a reasonable possiblilty of actually being found in pocket change. Some varieties listed herein I have actually found myself. Loads of great close-up photos, accurate desciptions, and a price guide. Great job Ken and Brian!

Mint errors and collecting different varieties of circulating coins is a little understood area of coin collecting. With this book and a little bit of time anybody can start searching their pocket change, their spouse's pocket change, their parent's pocket change or go to the bank and buy rolls of coins to search through. In there you may find coins that can sell from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars. But to be successful you will need knowledge of what to look for. This book will give you the knowledge that you need to get started.

After you become more experienced you will want to buy the "Cherrypickers' Guide" books by Bill Fivaz and J. T. Stanton:

Cherrypickers' Guide to Rare Die Varieties of United States Coins: Half Dimes Through Dollars, Gold, and Commemoratives (Official Whitman Guidebook)

Cherrypickers' Guide Half Cents Through Nickels

I love this book, It is a great beginners book for coin collectors, easy to read and understand. Only down side is no color pics, all pics are Black and White..

Okay, can I say I just love this book. Strike it Rich with Pocket Change is chocked full of information on how to spot pocket change that may or may not be worth lots of money. I know I will look at my change with different eyes. I'm the crazy person who picks up pennies on the ground and now I will make sure I do it more often. You never know when you may pick up a treasure. The illustrations in this book are superb and are very detailed so you know just what to look for.This book tells you about different coinage including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollars. It shows you what "flaws" to look for from the mint and tells you which ones are more collectable vs ones that aren't collectable at all. I read through this book in less than 2 hours and then started looking at my coins. I've not struck it rich yet but it sure is fun to hope.

I would advise anyone who wants to collects pocket change to give this book a try. I received this book in e-book form to review but wish I had gotten it in physical book form. My father collects coins and I will be purchasing another copy of this book for him for his birthday.I receive this book at no charge from Booksneeze.com in exchange for an honest review and honestly it is one of my favorites so far.

Many years ago I had a small coin collection I had to part with due to economic hardship. For that reason I was extra excited to review "Strike It Rich with Pocket Change: Error Coins Bring Big Money" by Ken Potter and Dr. Brian Allen. This review is for BookSneeze.com.

I was really pleased when I flipped through this book to see so many photographic examples of unique coins. This book is all about the errors of coins and unless you've spent a great deal of time exploring coins you'd never really notice any of these errors.

Most of the errors shown are so small it is truly amazing that anyone ever noticed and that such minor changes would change the value of coins so drastically.

Take for example the South Carolina state quarter. On the tree in the back on the back of the coin some contain an extra branch on the the tree. This minor error takes the value from twenty-five cents to fifteen dollars.

The book shows you a variety of errors separated by the coin denominations.

There are two challenges with this book.

One, a few of the errors have to do with color of the coins and since all the photos are in black and white it is difficult to see the differences mentioned.

Second, many of the errors are so tiny that you'll need a magnifying glass to examine each of your coins and most of us don't pay enough attention to notice such errors.

Otherwise, the information and layout of the book are phenomenal and if you're a coin hobbyist I would highly suggest picking up a copy of "Strike it Rich with Pocket Change."

This book is fun to have on hand and exciting to reveal what we have in our pockets. Although I wished it had more references to errors in a more orderly fashion.. Put the denominations in order, as if you were going through a coin value book. I was hoping more for an orderly list of errors to just open a page to.. BUT with all fairness, this book is just to show we have pockets with coins of possible value with out being a 100 years old..

I would say this book is very good especially for a novice collector. Bear in mind though, these errors the author discusses are very rare and the possibility of someone actually finding something is low. However it is fun to look through your change. You will need a very good(powerful) magnifier to see the errors that are discussed.

I have two complaints, one is the grammatical errors and the other is that they tell you to look at the colors on several pics but all are in black and white. Kinda pointless.

Overall good book. Don't nix because of these issues I found with it.