The Experts Guide to Collecting and Investing in Rare Coins Secrets Of Success

The Experts Guide to Collecting and Investing in Rare Coins Secrets Of Success

This hardcover 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.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Best Book Ever
While the Red book is extremely necessary to any numismatist’s library; this book gives you more information on every single bit of American coinage: from colonial coins to the Lincoln penny. This book shows a magnificent admount of life-long research.

5 Stars Amazing Resource, Mr. Bowers Has Created a Gem!
This book is a tome of valuable and perhaps profitable information!!!

The best thing about this book is its layout. I read the book pretty much cover to cover, but the great thing is that after you have finished the book you can go back and find specific things very easily! I recently started investing in proof coins and wanted to brush up on some of the finer points. In this book it is simple to find a specific topic and read until your heart’s content.

The depth of this book is also astounding, Mr. Bowers has so much experience and his command of the history of coins is amazing. If you want to expand your knowledge of coins, this book will open a flood gate of information!

The only downside is that I do not think that this is a book for a beginner in the field. It will overwhelm them with it’s sheer size and depth of information. A Red book is a good starting place.

Thank you Mr. Bowers for a book that I will read for a VERY long time to come!

5 Stars The Expert’s Guide to Collecting and investing in Rare Coins: Secrets of Success
Mr. Bowers Does it again… This is at least his Fourth iteration on this subject; “Collecting rare coins for profit-1975″;”Common Sense Coin Investment: A Revealing Look at Profitable Coin Investment Opportunities-1982″;and “A Buyer’s Guide to the Rare Coin Market- 1992″ and they have all been good and well worth reading, but this one is by far the best! From the basics and common sense, to deep insights gleened from over 60 years in the business, Mr. Bowers puts it all together and presents it in a well organized and very readable format the invites…, No encourages you to read from cover to cover (even if you don’t collect colonial coppers or Broken bank notes) In all an outstanding and very readable reference!

2 Stars Coin Handbok
I could have done without this book. Its design is flawed, and the binding is stiff and brittle. I prefer the Redbook or Bluebook.

5 Stars “BOWERS BEST BOOK EVER”: BUY IT; invest on you, READ IT; every chapter is a page turner, RECOMMENDED: 5 STARS at least*****
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“The Expert’s Guide to Collecting & Investing in Rare Coins” is definitely worth reading. It is autobiographical and contains the secrets of his 60 years of success as collector, investor, numismatist, grader, dealer, auctioneer, ANA board member, and author.

Cramming six decades of numismatic life experiences into a single book is tough, requiring mental and spiritual strength. Doing this in a comprehensive, coherent and organized manner is unquestionably a laborious, taxing, onerous, and difficult task. Such a demanding project could only be achieved by the formidable Q. David Bower.

Mr. Bower is one of the most prolific numismatic writers of all time, he has written over 30 books and numerous articles and columns.This is by far the most important of his works and possibly the best ever, the quality of information & wide-ranging content makes it the cream of the crop, flower of the flock, pick of the bunch –whatever you want to call it.

It is full of valuable expertise, candid story telling, dealer & auctioneer trade secrets, smart buying and selling techniques and recommendations, and detailed descriptions of every US coin by type, complete with a close focus on: Rarity, Grading, Quality, and Value of coins. It also includes his recommendations and insights on Conferences, Life & Internet Auctions, Library, Protection and Conservation of Coins, Tokens, Medals, and Paper Money.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I Recommend this Book.

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