"The Official Red Book - A Guide Book of United States Coins is 74 Years young and going strong. Collectors around the country love the book's grade-by-grade values, auction records, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data. How rare are your coins? How much are they worth? The Red Book tells you, covering everything from early colonial copper tokens to hefty Old West Silver dollars and...

Lists current prices for pottery, tools, figurines, books, glassware, toys, quilts, miniatures, and movie memorabilia.

Provides practical advice on building a baseball card collection, covering such topics as trading cards, preserving them, and finding rookie cards, errors, and other specialities.

Explains how to start a rock collection and how to recognize igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.

"A work that compellingly draws back the curtain on the activity of finding, authenticating, purchasing, and selling to collectors some of the most significant historical documents and artifacts of the past"--