Written by America's #1 consumer advocate and coin dealer Scott Travers, this price guide is completely updated for 2004 with the latest, most accurate data. It provides comprehensive facts on all U.S. coins, advice on collecting trends, and a complete listing of the fair market value of your coins today. This is the one guide you need! Don't be overcharged when you buy, don't be shortchanged when you sell.

America’s #1 consumer advocate for coin hobbyists, collectors, and investors is Scott Travers. Now he has created a guide that provides comprehensive facts on all U.S. coins and a complete listing of the fair market value for your coins today. Plus, he teaches you how to play the lucrative global game of coin collecting by including: • A breakdown of valuable varieties of coins that are hiding in pocket change • Secrets of how to grade, trade and preserve coins like the experts • Current trends in the coin market and how to capitalize with your own collection • The most complete and current price guide on the market today! “If you’re buying just one price guide to see what your coins are worth, this is the obvious choice.” –COINage magazine

America’s #1 consumer advocate for coin hobbyists, collectors, and investors is Scott Travers. Now he has created a guide that provides comprehensive facts on all U.S. coins and a complete listing of the fair market value for your coins today. Plus, he teaches you how to play the lucrative global game of coin collecting and investing by including: • How to identify valuable coins that are hiding in pocket change • Secrets of how to grade, trade, and preserve coins like the experts • Current trends in the coin market and how to profit from trading coins • The most complete coin price guide on the market today!

Completely updated with the latest, most accurate data, this price guide provides comprehensive facts on all U.S. coins, including advice on collecting trends, and a complete listing of the fair market value of coins today. Contains more than 200 black-and-white photos. Original.

World money is an everyone's mind, especially collectors'! The OfficialR Blackbook Price Guide to World Coins provides everything you need to know to build an exciting and profitable collection of world coins. Plus, this essential source gives you important information on how to buy, sell, and grade world coins; how to collect mint errors or oddball world coins; auction sales and prices of world coins over the past year; and international numismatic organizations and publications. With every country's coins listed, this is the perfect book to help you evaluate your own collection or to find new treasures. Special Features: * An up-to-date market review that traces current trends in collecting and investing in world coins. * Exhaustive information on world coins minted by the U.S. Mint. * An exclusive section on technology trends impacting world coin collectors. * Hundreds of illustrations to help identify world coins quickly.

The award-winning title has now been revised to offer the most up-to-date information and consumer protection advice available.

Revised and Updated for the Gold Rush From one of the world’s most knowledgeable coin dealers–a former consultant to the Federal Trade Commission who is often quoted by the Wall Street Journal–comes a thorough update of the most-trusted consumer protection handbook to buying and selling rare and valuable coins. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and a full-color insert, The Coin Collector’s Survival Manual, Seventh Edition is indispensable for seasoned collectors and novices alike. This substantially revised edition of the Coin Collector’s Survival Manual includes revised chapters that focus on legal and financial advice for buying and selling coins, and a new chapter on the most secure way to detect coins that have been "doctored." You will learn how to: • Avoid scams when buying and selling gold • Understand the new coin grading system • Detect altered, counterfeit, and doctored coins • Know how high gold and silver coins will climb in value • Buy coins through Internet auctions–and avoid the pitfalls • Safeguard and protect your coins from disaster ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Scott Travers, former vice president of the American Numismatic Association, was called the “preeminent consumer advocate in the numismatic field” by The New York Times. He is a contributor to all the leading coin publications and served as a coin valuation consultant to the Federal Trade Commission. He has been featured as a coin expert in Barron’s, Business Week, The WSJ, MSNBC and TODAY.