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A Guide Book of United States Coins 2025: 78th Edition: The Official Red Book
Hardcover
Series: A Guide Book of United States Coins
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9780794850593
Publisher: Whitman Publishing
Published: Apr 9 2024
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
The Bible of United States Coins Catalog & Values Since 1946
New: Updated pricing and auction records, new research, new photographs, the latest U.S. Mint data, and more! 472 pages, 2,000+ images, with more than 7,600 listings and 32,500+ coin prices.
Collectors have bought 25 million copies since the 1st edition! The Official Red Book(R)―A Guide Book of United States Coins―is 78 years young and going strong. Since 1946 collectors around the country have trusted the book's grade-by-grade coin values, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data. How rare are your coins? How much are they worth?
The 78th edition of the Red Book tells you, covering everything from early colonial copper tokens to hefty Old West silver dollars and dazzling gold coins. You'll find 32,500+ prices and auction records for nearly 8,000 coins, tokens, medals, sets, and other collectibles.
You'll also round out your education in classic and modern commemoratives, Proof and Mint coins, error coins, Civil War tokens, Confederate coins, Philippine coins struck under U.S. sovereignty, private gold, all the latest American Women quarters, Native American dollars, American Innovation dollars, bullion coins (silver, gold, platinum, and palladium), and more. Articles on investing, grading coins, and detecting counterfeits will make you a savvy collector; and entertaining essays on the history of American coinage, third-party grading, and the modern rare-coin market give you an inside look at the hobby of kings. These are just some of the features of the informative, entertaining, invaluable Red Book―the world's best-selling coin price guide (more than 25 million copies sold). 2025 edition.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Contributors to This Edition 7
- Welcome to Numismatics 8
- How to Use This Book 11
- PRE-FEDERAL ISSUES
- Colonial Issues 28
- Post-Colonial Issues 51
- FEDERAL ISSUES
- Contract Issues and Patterns 83
- Half Cents (1793-1857) 88
- Large Cents (1793-1857) 94
- Small Cents (1856 to Date) 109
- Two-Cent Pieces (1864-1873) 124
- Three-Cent Pieces (1851-1889) 125
- Nickel Five-Cent Pieces (1866 to Date) 127
- Half Dimes (1794-1873) 139
- Dimes (1796 to Date) 145
- Twenty-Cent Pieces (1875-1878) 162
- Quarter Dollars (1796 to Date) 163
- Half Dollars (1794 to Date) 199
- Silver and Related Dollars (1794 to Date) 223
- Gold Dollars (1849-1889) 255
- Quarter Eagles (1796-1929) 258
- Three-Dollar Gold Pieces (1854-1889) 265
- Four-Dollar Gold Pieces (1879-1880) 267
- Half Eagles (1795-1929) 268
- Eagles (1795-1933) 280
- Double Eagles (1849-1933) 288
- Commemoratives (1892 to Date) 296
- Proof and Mint Sets (1936 to Date) 366
- BULLION AND RELATED COINS
- Silver Bullion (1986 to Date) 377
- Gold Bullion (1986 to Date) 384
- Platinum and Palladium Bullion (1997 to Date) 398
- UNITED STATES PATTERN PIECES
- U.S. Patterns 404
- OTHER ISSUES
- Private and Territorial Gold 406
- Private Tokens 430
- Confederate Issues 437
- Hawaiian and Puerto Rican Issues 438
- Philippine Issues 440
- Alaska Tokens 445
- APPENDICES
- Appendix A: Misstrikes and Errors 446
- Appendix B: Collectible Red and Blue Books 450
- Appendix C: Bullion Values 455
- Appendix D: Top 250 Coin Prices Realized at Auction 457
- GLOSSARY 462
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 465
- INDEX 468
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