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A Guide Book of United States Coins (The Official Red Book), first compiled by R. S. Yeoman in 1946, is a price guide for coin collectors of coins of the United States dollar, commonly known as the Red Book. Along with its sister publication, the older Handbook of United States Coins (The Official Blue Book), it is considered an authoritative U ...
Richard S. Yeoman. Richard Sperry[ 2] Yeoman (born Richard Sperry Yeo; August 15, 1904 – November 9, 1988) was an American commercial artist and coin collector. Yeoman was the original author of the popular reference books A Guide Book of United States Coins and A Handbook of United States Coins, commonly known as the "Red Book" and "Blue ...
NGC Coin Explorer: Provides a searchable and user-friendly catalog of American coins as well as access to the NGC Price Guide, NGC Census, NGC Registry and Auction Central.
Proof coins. Like circulated grades, proof coins are graded on the Sheldon scale from 1 to 70, and are preceded by the abbreviation ‘PF’ or ‘PR’ to distinguish them from circulation strikes. Proof coins graded 60 to 70 are mirrored to those of Uncirculated grades with the difference that the coin was not made for circulation.
whitman.com. Whitman Publishing is an American book publishing company which started as a subsidiary of the Western Printing & Lithographing Company of Racine, Wisconsin. In about 1915, Western began printing and binding a line of juvenile books for the Hamming-Whitman Publishing Company of Chicago. A few years later Hamming-Whitman went ...
A scale for weighing coinage used at the New Orleans Mint in the 19th century. Like any other mint the New Orleans Mint was a factory to make coins. Operations at the New Orleans Mint began on March 8, 1838, with the deposit of the first Mexican gold bullion. The first coins, 30 dimes, were struck on May 7.
3. 1793 Strawberry Leaf Cent — $862,500. In 2009, the Strawberry Leaf penny broke records for the most money paid for a penny at an auction, going for $862,000. The Strawberry Leaf cent is ...
Standard Catalog of World Coins. Standard Catalog of World Coins - 1601–1700, 7th Edition, publication date 2018, Krause Publications, ISBN 978-1-4402-4857-3; Standard Catalog of World Coins - 1701–1800, 7th Edition, publication date 2016, Krause Publications, ISBN 978-1-4402-4706-4