The Official Blue Book: Handbook of United States Coins 2022

by Jeff Garrett, David Q. Bowers

Overview

Whitman Publishing debuted the Handbook of United States Coins in 1942. It was the first unbiased, authoritative resource showing how much coin dealers were paying on average to buy U.S. coins by type, date, and mintmark.

The groundbreaking new book was an immediate hit, popular with dealers and collectors alike. For more than 79 years coin dealers have used the OFFICIAL BLUE BOOK® (as it came to be known) to make buying offers. As a collector, you can use it to find out how much your coins are worth!

The Blue Book’s price listings offer a real-world look at the rare-coin market, gathered from dealers around the country. The new 79th edition includes updated prices, special features, and many new photographs.

Coverage includes colonial and early American coins, federal coins (half cents through gold double eagles), commemoratives, Proof sets, die varieties, private and territorial gold, tokens, the newest Presidential and American Innovation dollars, National Park quarters, bullion coins, and other United States Mint products.

More than 25,000 prices in multiple grades. Easy-to-follow coin-grading instructions. Coins and tokens from the 1600s to today. Historical information. Hundreds of detailed, actual-size photos. How to start a coin collection. Detailed mintage records, and much more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780794848965
Publisher:	Whitman Publishing
Publication date:	05/11/2021
Edition description:	79th ed.
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	689,938
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Contributors 7

How to Use This Book 8

Collecting Coins 9

Pre-Federal Issues

Colonial Issues 20

Post-Colonial Issues 30

Federal Issues

Contract Issues and Patterns 46

Half Cents (1793-1857) 47

Large Cents (1793-1857) 51

Small Cents (1856 to Date) 59

Two-Cent Pieces (1864-1873) 70

Three-Cent Pieces (1851-1889) 71

Nickel Five-Cent Pieces (1866 to Date) 73

Half Dimes (1794-1873) 83

Dimes (1796 to Date) 87

Twenty-Cent Pieces (1875-1878) 101

Quarter Dollars (1796 to Date) 102

Half Dollars (1794 to Date) 124

Silver and Related Dollars (1794 to Date) 141

Gold Dollars (1849-1889) 160

Quarter Eagles (1796-1929) 163

Three-Dollar Gold Pieces (1854-1889) 169

Four-Dollar Gold Pieces or "Stellas" (1879-1880) 170

Half Eagles (1795-1929) 171

Eagles (1795-1933) 179

Double Eagles (1849-1933) 185

Commemoratives (1892 to Date) 191

Proof and Mint Sets (1936 to Date) 235

Bullion

Silver Bullion (1986 to Date) 240

Gold Bullion (1986 to Date) 243

Platinum and Palladium Bullion (1997 to Date) 251

Other Issues

Private and Territorial Gold 256

Private Tokens 274

Philippine Issues 275

Appendices

A Bullion Values of Common Silver and Gold Coins 278

B Collectible Blue Books 280

C Top 25 U.S. Coin Prices Realized at Auction 281

Glossary 282

Bibliography 283

Index 284

Special Feature

How to Sell Coins You've Inherited 289