Description
High-quality, full-color photographs illustrate every coin. Snow’s detailed research includes annually production notes; market values in a couple of grades (including Brown, Red/Brown, and full Red Mint State); tips about collecting circulated, Mint State, and Proof coins; and more.
Other up to date and returning features come with a biography of designer James Longacre; an appendix on detecting counterfeit and altered coins; a history of market prices going back to 1946; and a bibliography for further research—plus section on pattern coins and toned Proofs.
This expanded third edition includes an illustrated guide of the highest 100 Flying Eagle and Indian Head cent die varieties; an illustrated look at of Flying Eagle and Indian Head cent exonumia by Charmy Harker, The Penny Lady®; a new grading system from Richard Snow; and fascinating mint errors!
