Coin Collecting 101: What You Need to Know - Softcover

This handy guide is the essential tool for novice and intermediate coin collectors. First-time collectors gain valuable basics for a lifetime of enjoyable and successful collecting, while experienced collectors discover new tips to hone their skills. Coin Collecting 101 covers the essentials of coin collecting at an affordable price collectors will love. This fully illustrated and indexed guide is an easy read for young collectors, with all the details needed for skilled collecting, Grading, errors, current market factors and glossary of terms are covered in chapters including How To Get Started, How does Coin Grading Work, Determining Coin Values and Buying Coins on the Internet. Edited by one of the foremost authorities in numismatics, this supreme resource features the benefits of true experience and research.

Professional coin authenticator and photographer Alan Herbert has been collecting coins for more than forty years.