By Alan Herbert

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 101covers the essentials of coin collecting at an affordable price collectors will love. This fully illustrated and indexed guide is an easy read for all ages, 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.

• Fully illustrated for easy identification

• Features a portable size for taking to shows

Pages: 272     Size: 6 x 9     Other Features: Soft cover, 300 black and white photos

By Ken Potter and Brian Allen

Strike It Rich With Pocket Change, shows you what to look for and how much these rare coins are worth.

Common "mistakes" you could profit from include:

• Coins stuck on the wrong Planchet: A quarter struck on a Sacagawea Dollar

• Mules: A Penny for the head and Dime for the tail could be worth up to $125,000!

• Overdates: A date stamp over the top of another date stamp from an earlier year.

• Clad layers missing—That would explain why the coin has two different color and metals on each side—like a chocolate coin missing one side of its foil!

Hundreds of illustrations and current market values, along with advice from two leading experts in the coin-collecting field make Strike It Rich With Pocket Change just what you need to turn your pocket change into a treasure.

Pages: 272     Size: 6 x 9     Other Features: Soft cover, 1,500+ black and white photos

By Wayne G. Sayles

Numismatists, historians, and everyone interested in collecting ancient coins will be engrossed in this revised and expanded second edition. This must-have volume explores new developments in research methods, particularly with regard to the Internet, and reveals many new finds in the field. The first of the six-volume ancient coin series, this second edition features expanded sections on how to collect ancient coins, determine authenticity, and identify fakes. Also discusses how to determine coin values and provides an expanded pronunciation guide and expanded bibliography.

• Expanded second edition of Volume I

• Determine authenticity and identify fakes

Pages: 312     Size: 6 x 9     Other Features: Hardcover, 300 b&w photos

By Wayne G. Sayles

Relive the power and majesty of one of history's greatest civilizations. Stand face to face with the ancient Greeks as you study their coins.

This is the second release of the highly acclaimed roadmaps to the hobby of collecting coins from antiquity. This second edition is 100 pages larger than before, and packed with hundreds of illustrations to help you unearth provocative insights and learn basic elements of production, style and historical context of Greek coinage. Common sense advice from an ancient coins authority helps you expand your collection with accuracy and ease, avoiding false finds.

Pages: 304 pages     Size: 6 x 9     Other Features: Hardcover, 300+ black and white photos

By Wayne G. Sayles

Trace Roman coins from the empire's origins in the third century B.C. to its final days in the fifth century A.D. This book, third in a six-part series, presents a detailed road map to collecting these intriguing coins. You'll learn to attribute individual specimens while also gaining valuable insight into a civilization that used its extensive coinage for disseminating political propaganda.

In this updated second edition, 100 additional pages made room for the inclusion of:

• Consideration of questions and problems in Roman numismatics

• New information about coins of some rare usurpers

• Significantly expanded bibliographies

• Enhanced illustrations

• More in depth discussion of Roman Republic coins

So take a journey through time and discover an exciting hobby with Ancient Coin Collecting III: The Roman World—Politics and Propaganda.

Pages: 304     Size: 6 x 9     Other Features: Hardcover with Jacket, 300 black and white photos

By Wayne G. Sayles

Provincial coin makers had more freedom to celebrate their local festivals, art, games, mythology, and architecture on their coins. From Augustus in 27 B.C. to the end of the third century, their coinage displays these rich and diverse cultures.

Pages: 208     Size: 8.25 x 10.875     Other Features: Hardcover, 200 Black and White Photos

By Wayne G. Sayles

Ancient Coin Collecting V explores the civilized world after the fall of Rome through the coins of the Romaioi, Greek citizens of the Roman East. Their coinage reveals a society with strong religious undercurrents and divergent philosophies, and an empire plagued by political and financial crises. Ancient Coin Collecting V also contrasts the artistic styles of iconoclasm with traditional religious art, and traces the evolution of Christian themes in coins.

This book delivers information on coin attribution and provides production details such as denominations, mints and dating. More than 300 photos, maps, a glossary and a detailed bibliography make this a must-have resource for both beginning and experienced collectors.

• This is the fifth book in a popular six-volume series

• Packed with useful collector information: attribution guide, production specifications, bibliography and glossary

Pages: 208     Size: 6 x 9     Other Features: Hardcover, 300 black and white photos

By Wayne G. Sayles

From the Land of Sheba to the Court of Ghengis Khan, the coinage of many cultures survives as a testament to their greatness. This final volume in an acclaimed series spans 1,500 years of numismatic history and sheds light on many diverse civilizations that struck coinage in ancient times.

This generously illustrated, user-friendly guide will reveal just how collectible this coinage can be.

Pages: 200     Size: 6 x 9     Other Features: Hardcover, 300 black and white photos