Expert’s Guide to Collecting and Investing in Rare Coins

Description

This book is a comprehensive insider’s look at not only rare coins, but also tokens, medals, and paper money. At 34 chapters and nearly 700 pages, it covers everything from grading to determining values to techniques of smart auction bidding.

More than 1,300 photographs and illustrations, both black and white and in full-color galleries, complement the text, showing the people, places, and coins described. Bowers’ engaging case studies, strategies, and insider tips make the book an invaluable “how to” for today’s marketplace. Chapters are devoted to copper, nickel, silver, and gold coins; dynamics of the coin market; fads, trends, cycles, and predictions; conserving and protecting your collection; how to be a smart seller; and more.

Description:

Publisher: Whitman
Author: Q. David Bowers
ISBN: 9780794819200
Pub Date: 10/1/2005
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 6.25×9.25
Pages: 655

Item #: 21121
Condition: New