The One-Minute Coin Expert: 3rd Edition (Mass Market Paperback)

by Scott A. Travers (Author)

Editorial Reviews

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"IN NUMISMATIC TERMINOLOGY, IT'S A GEM".

-- Los Angeles Times

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"The best of its kind -- ever! I can't imagine any other book being as authoritative, comprehensive, and concise."
-- Vincent Sgro, Bloomberg News

"The most important coin book of its kind."
-- COINage magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: House of Collectibles; 3rd edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0676601480
• ISBN-13: 978-0676601480
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,756,019 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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32 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guide, May 4, 2000

By A Customer

This book had many tips for the new collector. There are e-mail addresses and address of people that can help with coins that you are not sure are errors. It tells you what coins to buy and which are not a good bet. All in all, I've you're a new collector, buy it!

30 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a GEM, September 29, 1999

By	J. Schumm (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Scott Travers makes numismatical things easy to understand. A great book for all. I highly reccommend it!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average quality on all accounts, February 27, 2004

By	"vikhr" (Athens Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The One-Minute Coin Expert, 4th Edition (One Minute Coin Expert) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read a good part of this book while flying from Athens to Vienna and I have mixed feeling about it. The book itself, as a publication that is, is way below present-day acceptable standards with b&w low resolution (bearly distinguisable) photos of coins on a dark-brown recyclable paper. Altough the content is always more important than the cover, the overall quality bothered me a lot. Content-wise the situation is much better. Altough I am not really interested in US coin varieties, presenting mint errors, how they were made or how much they cost, what to consider etc is helpful for every collector and I did learn a couple of new things. What I especially enjoyed was the coin grading guide which was quite thorough and extended to many pages. This was quite rewarding as it was one of the most important reasons I purchased the book in the first place. I also liked the information about the coin market, which -although commonsensical in large part- made an interesting reading and helped me in a couple of investing decisions. to conclude, I did gain knowledge from this book, but apart from the grading stuff it was more of a light reading than a source of great information. Since it costs only a few dollars, I would recommend it to beginners but certainly not to experienced collectors.