Neil S. Berman - Coin Collecting For Dummies

11 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: The Isabella quarter.FIGURE 13-2: The Missouri half dollar.FIGURE 13-3: The Hawaiian half dollar.FIGURE 13-4: The Oregon Trail half dollar.FIGURE 13-5: The San Diego half dollar.

12 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: A pattern coin.FIGURE 14-2: The Wass, Molitor & Co. $50 gold piece.FIGURE 14-3: The 1883 Hawaiian silver dollar.FIGURE 14-4: An off-center error strike.

13 Chapter 18FIGURE 18-1: Numismatic Guarantee Corporation Chairman & CEO Mark Salzberg.FIGURE 18-2: Stephanie Sabin, CEO of Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS).

14 Chapter 21FIGURE 21-1: James Halperin and Steve Ivy, founders of Heritage Auctions.FIGURE 21-2: Ian Russell, one of the founders of GreatCollections.

15 Chapter 23FIGURE 23-1: The King Farouk 1933 Double Eagle.FIGURE 23-2: The 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar.FIGURE 23-3: The 1787 Brasher Doubloon EB on Wing.FIGURE 23-4: The 1822 $5.FIGURE 23-5: The Childs 1804 Bust silver dollar.FIGURE 23-6: The 1787 Brasher Doubloon with the EB on the eagle’s breast.FIGURE 23-7: The 1861 Paquet Reverse Double Eagle.FIGURE 23-8: 1794 silver dollar (Lord St. Oswald).FIGURE 23-9: Umayyad Gold Dinar.FIGURE 23-10: 1804 Proof Eagle.

16 Chapter 24FIGURE 24-1: The 1792 silver center cent pattern.FIGURE 24-2: The 1849 Double Eagle pattern.FIGURE 24-3: The 1907 Ultra-High Relief Double Eagle.FIGURE 24-4: The 1822 Half Eagle.FIGURE 24-5: The 1785 Immune Columbia Constelatio in gold.

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3 Copyright

4 Table of Contents

5 Begin Reading

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8 About the Author

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Welcome to Coin Collecting For Dummies, 3rd Edition. You may have just discovered coin collecting for the first time and want to find out more. Or perhaps you’ve collected coins for a while and want to take your hobby to the next level.

Coin collecting is a hobby you can share with family and friends. It’s relaxing and as expensive or inexpensive as you want it to be. Coin collecting teaches history, geography, observational skills, organizational skills, and analytical tools — all without your thinking about it. If you buy properly, coins can be an excellent place to park your money for a rainy day, and if you buy the right coins and the market improves, you may even be able to make a profit on your collection someday.

The purpose of this book is to turn you into a world-class coin collector in as short a period of time as possible. The chapters are laid out in parts that focus on particular areas of numismatics (the study of coins), including getting involved in coin collecting; deciding what to collect; protecting yourself and your coins; and grading, buying, and selling coins.

This book is designed to appeal to collectors at every level, from beginner to advanced. We’ve written it in everyday English without overloading you with a bunch of coin terms. (If you run across a term you don’t understand, you can find a great glossary in the back of the book.) This isn’t a hardcore coin book but a great general reference that points you in different directions for further investigation. You can always come back to this book to regroup, resupply, and ready yourself for something new.

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