Coin collecting
Book - 2022
Berman introduces readers to numismatics-- also known as coin collecting. His comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide takes you through buying, selling, grading, valuing, handling, and storing coins. Readers will learn to how choose a coin-collection focus, evaluate corns based on their age and condition, and even navigate coin auction houses. -- adapted from back cover
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2022]
- Language
- English
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- Edition
- 3rd edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
"Learning made easy" -- Cover.
"Start your collection correctly ; learn about ancient coins, U.S. coins, world coins ; develop a buying strategy" -- Cover. - Physical Description
- xiii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781119862673
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Making Heads and Tails Out of Coin Collecting
- Chapter 1. Welcome to the World of Coin Collecting
- On Your Mark, Get Set, Go: Starting Your Coin Collection
- Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe: Deciding Which Coins to Collect
- I Pledge Allegiance: Turning Your Attention to U.S. Coins
- I'll Take That One, and That One, and That One: Buying Coins
- Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow: Selling Your Coins
- Chapter 2. Understanding Numismatics
- Admitting Your Numismatism
- Discovering How Cool Coin Collecting Can Be
- Collecting versus Accumulating
- Collecting Various Types of Coins
- Gold and silver coins
- Commemorative coins
- BU Rolls
- Silver certificates
- Getting Excited about Collecting Today
- 50 State Quarters
- Sacagawea dollar
- New commemorative issues
- Error coins
- Chapter 3. Arming Yourself with Knowledge
- Gaining Knowledge Before You Buy
- Understanding the parts and purpose of a coin
- Putting the book before the coin
- Mix and mingle
- Affecting a Coin's Value
- Age: Good for wine, good for coins?
- Condition: Pumping them up
- Demand: Demanding high dollar
- Rarity: Hunting for treasures
- Supply: Giving them what they want
- Deciding What to Collect
- Staying focused
- Thinking long-term
- Chapter 4. Storing Your Collection Correctly
- Holdering Them the Right Way
- Keeping Away from the Cleaning Products
- Removing dirt
- Handle with kid gloves
- Wash your hands before touching
- Ask before removing a coin from a holder
- Watch out for the holder
- Handle a coin by the edges
- Keep your mouth shut
- Hold a coin over a soft surface
- Keeping Them High and Dry
- Keepin' 'em dry
- Using a desiccant
- Securing Your Stash: At Home and on the Road
- Deciding between a home safe and a safe-deposit box
- Carrying coins in your car
- Carrying coins on a plane
- How comforting is your inn?
- Dealing with a robbery
- Insuring Your Investment
- Part 2. Ancient to Present Day: Choosing Coins for Your Collection
- Chapter 5. Showing Their True Age: Ancient Coins
- Ancient Coins - of Gods and Men
- Deciding Which Ancient Coins to Collect
- Ancient Greek coins
- Ancient Roman coins
- Biblical coins
- Byzantine coins
- Understanding How Age Affects Value
- It's All Greek to Me!
- Knowing Where You Can Get 'Em
- Chapter 6. Making a Safe Bet with U.S. Coins
- Discovering a Finely Tuned Market
- Understanding Why U.S. Coins Are So Popular
- Recognizing Desirable Coin Characteristics: Liquidity, Liquidity, Liquidity
- Chapter 7. Globetrotting with World Coins
- A Few Hints for Beginners
- Collecting by country
- Collecting by denomination
- Collecting crowns
- Collecting by date
- Collecting topically
- Recognizing the Hot and Cold Countries
- Understanding That Grading Standards Are Not All the Same
- Obsession with quality is okay - to a point
- Extremely Fine is not Extremely Fine is not Extremely Fine
- Chapter 8. Exploring the Wild Side with Rare, Expensive, and Esoteric Coins
- Looking for the Best of the Best
- Collecting Finest Known coins
- Checking Condition Census
- Recognizing Odd and Curious Money
- Investigating Tokens, Medals, and Miscellaneous Coins
- Hard Times tokens
- Good For tokens
- Civil War tokens
- Washington medals
- Collecting by Die Variety - the Spice of Life
- Part 3. Focusing on U.S. Coins
- Chapter 9. Colonial Coins: America's Ancients
- Recognizing a Colonial Coin
- Locating Foreign Coins Used in the American Colonies
- French coins
- Irish coins
- British coins
- Spanish coins
- London elephant tokens
- Appreciating How Colonies and States Expressed Themselves
- Massachusetts
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- Vermont
- New York
- Virginia
- Collecting Privately Issued Coins and Tokens
- Mott token
- Brasher doubloon
- Higley coppers
- Distinguishing Quasiofficial Colonial Coins
- Continental dollars
- Fugio cents
- Nova Constellatio coppers
- Washingtoniana: America Goes Ape for Its First President
- Unity States cent
- 1791 Washington large eagle cent
- 1793 ship halfpenny
- 1795 grate halfpenny
- Liberty and Security penny
- Chapter 10. Copper and Nickel Coins: Made for the Masses
- Getting the Hang of Half Cents
- Major types of U.S. half cents
- Collecting U.S. half cents
- Living Large with Large Cents
- Major types of U.S. large cents
- Collecting U.S. large cents
- Seeking Out Small Cents
- Major types of U.S. small cents
- Collecting U.S. small cents
- Taking on Two-Cent Pieces
- Rounding Up the Three-Cent Nickel
- Firing Up for the Five Cents (or Nickels)
- Major types of U.S. five-cent pieces
- Collecting U.S. five-cent pieces
- Chapter 11. Silver Coins: Keeping Commerce Alive
- Thrilling Yourself with Three-Cent Silvers
- Major types of U.S. three-cent silvers
- Collecting U.S. three-cent silvers
- Hunting Down Half Dimes
- Major types of U.S. half dimes
- Collecting U.S. half dimes
- Digging in for Dimes
- Major types of U.S. dimes
- Collecting U.S. dimes
- Touring Around for 20-Cent Pieces
- Calling All Quarter Dollars
- Major types of U.S. quarter dollars
- Collecting U.S. quarter dollars
- Holding On to Half Dollars
- Major types of U.S. half dollars
- Collecting U.S. half dollars
- Digging Around for Dollars
- Major types of U.S. dollars
- Collecting U.S. dollars
- Chapter 12. Gold Coins: Concentrated Wealth
- $1 Gold Pieces
- Liberty-head gold dollar (1849-54)
- Indian-princess gold dollar (1854-89)
- $2.50 Gold Pieces
- Turban Head $2.50 gold piece (1796-1807)
- Capped Bust $2.50 gold piece (1808-34)
- Classic Head $2.50 gold piece (1834-39)
- Liberty-head $2.50 gold piece (1840-1907)
- Indian-head $2.50 gold piece (1908-29)
- $3 Gold Pieces
- $4 Gold Pieces
- $5 Gold Pieces
- Turban Head $5 gold piece (1795-1807)
- Capped Bust $5 gold piece (1807-34)
- Classic Head $5 gold piece (1834-38)
- Liberty-head $5 gold piece (1839-1908)
- Indian-head $5 gold piece (1908-29)
- $10 Gold Pieces
- Turban Head $10 gold piece (1795-1804)
- Liberty-head $10 gold piece (1838-1907)
- Indian-head $10 gold piece (1907-33)
- $20 Gold Pieces
- Liberty-head $20 gold piece (1849-1907)
- Saint-Gaudens $20 gold piece (1907-33)
- Chapter 13. Commemoratives: Raising Money with Money
- Commemorate This!
- The Early Years (1892-1934): Commemoratives Under Control
- The Age of Abuse (1934-54): Commemoratives Out of Control
- Modern Commemoratives (1982-present): Money Coins
- Circulating Commemoratives
- 50 State Quarters
- Tips for Collecting Commemoratives
- Chapter 14. Advancing to Oddball Coins
- Understanding Pattern Coins
- Collecting Pioneer or Private Gold
- Finding Confederate Coins
- Appreciating Proof Coins
- Recognizing Hawaiian Coins
- Identifying Error Coins
- Part 4. Buying and Selling Coins the Safe Way
- Chapter 15. Wheeling and Dealers
- Finding a Good Coin Dealer
- Localizing Your Efforts
- Going to the Nationals
- Going Global
- Evaluating the global pros
- Weighing the global cons
- Surfing the Net for a Deal
- Chapter 16. Grading and Authenticity, Rarity, and the Establishment of Value
- Factors That Affect Grade
- Eye Appeal
- Circulated vs. Uncirculated Coins
- Precision Grading
- Consistency of Grading
- Proofs, Patterns, and Specimens
- Overgrading and Overpricing
- Grading Guarantees
- Authenticity and Originality
- Rarity and the Establishment of Value
- Market Demand and Survival Rate
- Chapter 17. Foiling the Fakes
- Resisting Temptation
- Becoming Your Own Expert
- Finding Out about Repaired, Restored, and Recolored Coins
- Cleaned coins
- Curated coins
- Dipped coins
- Scrubbed coins
- Erasered coins
- Whizzed coins
- Repaired coins
- Recolored coins
- Getting Duped
- Scams
- Misrepresentation
- Overgrading
- Undergrading
- Cheap offers
- Caveating Your Emptor
- Saving the Day: Return Privileges and Guarantees
- No return privilege
- Return privileges
- Guarantees
- Slamming the Scammers
- Chapter 18. Grading with the Pros
- The Grading Process
- Submitting coins to be graded
- Grading
- Encapsulation
- Shipping
- Numismatic Guarantee Company (NGC)
- Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS)
- Certified Acceptance Corporation (CAC)
- The Other Guys
- Restoration and Conservation
- Toning
- Spots
- Metal
- Means to an end
- Chapter 19. Selling Your Coins Yourself
- Knowing What to Expect
- Deciding Whether to Sell Coins Yourself
- Getting Ready to Sell Your Collection
- Knowing what you have
- Understanding that looks are everything
- Getting the grading done beforehand
- Pricing properly
- Knowing Where to Sell Your Coins
- Coin dealers
- Coin shows
- Direct marketing via publications or online services
- Mastering the Art of Selling
- Be assertive
- Talk 'em up
- Appeal to a need
- Convey a sense of urgency
- Stick to your pricing
- Sell from the bottom
- Remain patient
- Keeping Good Records
- Donating the Rest
- Chapter 20. Going Once, Going Twice: Buying at Auction
- Flying Like Bees to Honey
- Seeking a rare flower
- Getting stung
- Preparing to Buy
- Obtaining the catalog
- Reading the terms and conditions of sale
- Registering to bid
- Studying the catalog
- Choosing your battles
- Setting your limits
- Bidding
- Reserving Yourself
- Hauling Yourself to Online Auctions
- Getting Internet versions of auction catalogs
- Using eBay
- Chapter 21. The Coin Auction Arena
- Consignment Journey
- If you are a seller
- If you are a buyer
- Heritage Auctions: "The Titan"
- Top Performing Auction Houses
- GreatCollections Coin Auctions
- Legend Rare Coin Auctions
- Stack's Bowers Galleries
- Lyn Knight Auctions
- Goldberg Auctions
- Kagin's
- David Lawrence Auctions
- Chapter 22. Coin Investments, Taxes, and the Law
- Investing in Coins in Theory
- Dealing with Taxes
- Sales taxes
- Income taxes
- Part 5. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 23. The Ten Most Valuable U.S. Coins
- 1933 Double Eagle ($18,872,250) PCGS MS65
- 1794 Flowing Hair Dollar ($10,016,875)
- 1787 Brasher Doubloon EB on Wing ($9,360,000)
- 1822 $5 ($8,400,000) PCGS AU50
- 1804 Bust Dollar ($7,680,000) PCGS PF68
- 1787 Brasher Doubloon EB on Breast ($7,395,000)
- 1861 $20 Paquet Reverse ($7,200,000)
- 1794 $1 (Lord St Oswald) ($6,600,000) PCGS MS66+
- 723 AD Umayyad Gold Dinar (£3,720,000-$6,029,400)
- 1804 $10 Proof Eagle (5,280,000) PCGS PF65+ DCAM
- Chapter 24. Ten Favorite U.S. Coin Designs
- 1792 Silver Center Cent
- 1849 Double Eagle
- 1907 Ultra-High Relief Double Eagle
- 1822 Half Eagle
- 1785 Immune Columbia Constelatio in Gold
- 1776 Continental Dollar
- 1793 Wreath Cent
- 1809-36 Capped Bust Half Dollar, Second Style
- 1794 Flowing Hair Dollar
- 1808 Quarter Eagle
- Chapter 25. Ten Ways to Get Your Kids Involved in Coin Collecting
- Show Them Some of Your Favorite Coins
- Show Them a Book That Illustrates the Coins You Own
- Show Them Interesting Coin Websites
- Start Them on Collecting the 50 State Quarters or the Presidential $1 Coins
- Use Coins in a School Project
- Take Them to a Museum
- Take Them to a Coin Dealer
- Take Them to a Coin Show
- Take Them to a Coin Auction
- Take Them to a U.S. Mint
- Glossary
- Index