Re: Value of 1971 Coin Pricing book? Ballpark figure?
Frank Provasek
<COIN.QUESTI...@VENDING.MACHINE.ORG> wrote:
> I was wondering if one of you would help me with an estimate for the
> value of this book below?
>
> 1971 HANDBOOK OF UNITED STATES COINS
> "WITH PREMIUM LIST"
> TWENTY-EIGHT EDITION [28th Edition]
> Originally Sold For $1.50
> Western Publishing Company INC.
> BY. R. S. Yeoman
> This book is 127 pages and has a BLUE HardBack cover.
>
> It gives prices for anything from pennies to half/whole dollar coins.
> It also includes pricing for colonial, commemorative and silver and
> gold coins.
> This book is in excellent shape, like you'd find brand new inside
> plastic wrapping.
>
> Is there a website that gives the value of various coin pricing books
> like mine?
>
> What would be a ballpark value of this book?
>
> Thanks people.
$2 excellent to new condition
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On your posting below.
As for your book value, I did find yours listed for
£3.50 (Pluse £2.75 shipping), on Amazon in the
United Kingdom. Below is the link.
If you seeking a newer book, I would just check
out your local bookstores, Target, Sears, and
the public library. You can check out a book
free at the local library.
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"COIN QUESTIONS" <COIN.QU...@VENDING.MACHINE.ORG> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:23:14 -0800 (PST), Frank Provasek
> <fr...@frankcoins.com> wrote this stuff here :
>
>> On Nov 20, 2:38 pm, COIN QUESTIONS
>> <COIN.QUESTI...@VENDING.MACHINE.ORG> wrote:
>>> I was wondering if one of you would help me with an estimate for the
>>> value of this book below?
>>>
>>> 1971 HANDBOOK OF UNITED STATES COINS
>>> "WITH PREMIUM LIST"
>>> TWENTY-EIGHT EDITION [28th Edition]
>>> Originally Sold For $1.50
>>> Western Publishing Company INC.
>>> BY. R. S. Yeoman
>>> This book is 127 pages and has a BLUE HardBack cover.
>>>
>>> It gives prices for anything from pennies to half/whole dollar
>>> coins. It also includes pricing for colonial, commemorative and
>>> silver and gold coins.
>>> This book is in excellent shape, like you'd find brand new inside
>>> plastic wrapping.
>>>
>>> Is there a website that gives the value of various coin pricing
>>> books like mine?
>>>
>>> What would be a ballpark value of this book?
>>>
>>> Thanks people.
>>
>> $2 excellent to new condition
>
> makes one wonder what you need to have valuable coins?
>
> How about a mint issue $5 1911 bill uncirculated?
>
> 2 cents?
Frank's right. You can buy, right now, a box of 12 new Red Books (red cloth
and gilded) for $36 for the common years. The first edition, leather bound,
ANA special issues, current edition, etc. command higher prices.
Demand sets the price for all collectibles.
W.
Lorrie S.
bindings prior to 1900 are worth any considerable amount.
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"Lorrie S." <lorri...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Your coin book is practically worthless. Only coin books published
> in fine
> bindings prior to 1900 are worth any considerable amount.
It depends on what you mean by "considerable". Earlier this year I
paid a hefty premium over publisher's list price for a mint condition
1994 VAM, on the order of 50% or more from what I could tell. And it
wasn't cheap at the original MSRP, either.
A 1971 Red or Blue Book only has curiosity value, which the market
puts at about $2. But if you can find a copy of the first Red Book
(the 1946 original, not the commemorative reprint) for $2, grab all
you can get regardless of condition. According to a table of values I
saw somewhere a while ago, they're true collectibles going at very
steep prices. The same is true to a lesser extent for the next 2-3
years. Prices drop off sharply after that.
Frank Provasek
> Your coin book is practically worthless. Only coin books published in fine
> bindings prior to 1900 are worth any considerable amount.
>
Lorrie, you are incorrect. Redbooks from the late 1940s are several
hundred dollars, and copies of the 1988 Breen Encylopedia are
available used
only for way over retail issue price.