Drawing on a lifetime of research, America's top coin historian presents the most comprehensive guide to U.S. coins ever published. The definitive numismatic reference book, with over 4,000 illustrations.
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For inquiries from users with coins they believe to be valuable, it's best to acquire regularly an inexpensive price guide to U.S. coins; the "Red Book" (R.S. Yeoman's annual, A Guide Book of United States Coins ) is the most widely cited. For collectors and those with general interests, however, Breen's work is virtually a one-volume library of American numismatics, with a remarkably high percentage of information valuable to both novices and experts. The text and extensive illustrations explain the history and varieties of all U.S. coins, from colonial times to today. Relative rarity in various grades is indicated, but values are given only in special cases. Alan M. Stahl, A merican Numismatic Soc., New York
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Drawing on a lifetime of research, America's top coin historian presents the most comprehensive guide to U.S. coins ever published. The definitive numismatic reference book, with over 4,000 illustrations.
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The most important numismatic book in the world.,
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This review is from: Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins (Hardcover)
This is the ultimate book on American numismatics, and I use it almost every day. Walter Breen was the most dedicated researcher imaginable. There are hundreds of mistakes in the book, but there are millions of things he got right, so the errors are mostly insignificant. A++
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If you collect US coins there is simply no better referrence than this book. It is absolutley full of useful and vital information for the serious collector. Its expensive, but worth every penny.Get it.
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This review is from: Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins (Hardcover)
Perhaps only a coin collector can realy appreciate this book for what it truly represents, but anyone that wants to know about a coin variety can use it !! This book is a one stop shopping coin variety encyclopedia. Variety of coin means nothing more than coin variations, the different things done in manufacturing throughout a coins life that differentiate from any other of the same minted coins in series. The Lincoln cent has been minted for almost 100 years; and there are litteraly 1000s' of Lincoln cent varieties, ie: 1909, 1909s, 1909svdb, 1922 plain no "d" weak obverse & strong reverse, 1960 lrg. date, 1960 sml. date, 1955/55 double die, and on ....... These variations hold true for all coins ever minted in the U.S. The pictorial examples of these variations, not to mention the research that went into them, is surpassed by none !! Its always been difficult for this writer to acquire this book do to its cost, but Amazon.com not only priced it right, " it made it possible ", Thanks Amazon
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The history of the American colonies prior to the Revolution is largely the story of their struggles to achieve economic self-sufficiency in defiance of systematically hostile British policies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
positional vars, thin numerals, same obv, doubling plainest, see introductory text, half hair details, obviously repunched, prohibitively rare, date slants, date first entered, beware coins, die file marks, repunched date, dies shipped, earliest die state, numeral punches, federal branch mint, lapped die, most business strikes, border dentils, minor repunchings, reworked dies, buckled dies, date logotype, drastically repolished Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, New Orleans, United States, Courtesy Bowers, Ruddy Galleries, Philadelphia Mint, Mint Bureau, First Wear Points, Wayte Raymond, Machin's Mills, Robert Scot, Carson City, Mint Cabinet, William Barber, Gobrecht Journal, Christian Gobrecht, New Jersey, Great Seal, Ten Eyck, John Reich, Waldo Newcomer, Chief Coiner, William Kneass, Rahway Mills New!
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The history of the American colonies prior to the Revolution is largely the story of their struggles to achieve economic self-sufficiency in defiance of systematically hostile British policies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
positional vars, thin numerals, same obv, doubling plainest, see introductory text, half hair details, obviously repunched, prohibitively rare, date slants, date first entered, beware coins, die file marks, repunched date, dies shipped, earliest die state, numeral punches, federal branch mint, lapped die, most business strikes, border dentils, minor repunchings, reworked dies, buckled dies, date logotype, drastically repolished Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, New Orleans, United States, Courtesy Bowers, Ruddy Galleries, Philadelphia Mint, Mint Bureau, First Wear Points, Wayte Raymond, Machin's Mills, Robert Scot, Carson City, Mint Cabinet, William Barber, Gobrecht Journal, Christian Gobrecht, New Jersey, Great Seal, Ten Eyck, John Reich, Waldo Newcomer, Chief Coiner, William Kneass, Rahway Mills New!
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- The Papers of Thomas Jefferson VOL 1, 1760-1776 by Thomas Jefferson on page 114, page 120, and Back Matter
- George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (George Bernard Shaw Ser No 92) by H. L. Mencken on page 361, and page 572
- Coin World Almanac by Coin World in Back Matter, and Index
- The Cross of Gold: Speech Delivered before the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, July 9, 1896 by William Jennings Bryan on page 443, and page 510
- Washington, D.C. (World Cities) by James E. Davis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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