A Guide Book of United States Gold Dollars is the latest entry in Whitman’s Bowers Series.

It includes a chronicle of the nation’s smallest gold coin; an inside look at mints and the minting process; discussion of Proofs; advice on collecting gold dollars; tips on how to be a smart buyer.

• full-color illustrations
• a coin-by-coin study of Type I, Type II, and Type III gold dollars
• valuations and population data

Includes an appendix of record auction prices; a selected bibliography; and more – all written in an engaging and informative style.

Full Color, 6×9 Softcover, 288 Pages, Fully Indexed.

Available through Whitman Publishing Web Site - Price: $19.95

He explains the evolution of grading standards, how to “read” a coin’s surfaces, expert techniques, smart buying tips, aspects of today’s marketplace, and more. This detailed, insightful text is combined with hundreds of high-resolution color photographs to help you grade your entire coin collection.

Here’s what the experts are saying about this revolutionary new book:

“Grading Coins by Photographs is magnificent! A must-read for today’s sophisticated collector. This will be the most important grading book in my numismatic library.”
—John Albanese, cofounder of PCGS, NGC, and CAC

Grading Coins by Photographs will be available before Thanksgiving 2008. It has 384 pages, is spiralbound for ease of use, and is illustrated in full color. It covers circulated, Mint State, and Proof coins. The retail price is $19.95.

Available from Whitman Publishing

In Yankee Doodle’s Pocket links everyday objects with the larger-than-life people, events, societies and upheavals that brought them into existence. The tale begins with the earliest European forays into the wilderness and ends with the 1840 dawning of America’s industrial age. In the frontier beginning, barter monies sprang from fields, forests and oceans. In the end monotonously uniform coins and printed paper spewed from urban factories born of the Industrial Revolution. Until then, America’s coins and paper currency were works of art, as beautiful in their simplicity and hand-crafted variation as their European counterparts were in sophisticated perfection. These objects reveal an America that was surprisingly cosmopolitan and commercial from the start. They helped communicate ideas, foster expansion and enable transformation.

Available from Bowmanstone Press $58.95 + Shipping & Handling.

SBN 978-0-9816638-0-7
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches, 576 pages, 4 lbs. 6 ounces
Binding: Premium hardcover, sewn, copper foil stamping on front and spine

(Irvine, CA) – As the use of the Internet and electronic visual media becomes more of a vital part of the coin industry, photographing coins, either raw or slabbed, has become an increasing concern with collectors and dealers. How do I get a good detailed image of this coin? What are the tools I need? Do I need to purchase any expensive equipment? What kind of lighting should I use? What techniques can I use to produce a good image of this coin?

In Numismatic Photography (published by Zyrus Press), Mark Goodman teaches the reader in an easy-to-read and visually rich guidebook format on how to image quality photos of coins with your digital camera. Whether you are using a digital camera for the first time or you already have experience in other fields of photography, Goodman addresses typical problems faced by the photographer, recommends ways of improvements and offers specific tips and techniques for raw and slabbed coins.

“[Mark] Goodman’s first numismatic book is an impressive addition to the coin collector’s arsenal of knowledge… Numismatic Photography is recommended for anyone interested in making better coin photos, or in learning how these images are made.”–Roger Burdette, Author of the Renaissance of American Coinage series

Some of the chapters included are Imaging Concepts, Color and Luster, High Contrast Coins, Low Contrast Coins, Toned Coins, Special Imaging Techniques and Image Presentation, among others. The book also includes two appendices: a Troubleshooting Guide and General Rules for Coin Photography.

Releasing on July 15th, look for copies of Numismatic Photography in bookstores nationwide, your local coin shop, or Amazon.com. You can also order from Zyrus Press by mailing to PO Box 17810, Irvine, California 92623, calling (888) 622-7823, or online at www.zyruspress.com.

Numismatic Photography Releases on July 15th!

Published by Zyrus Press, Inc. of Irvine, California (www.zyruspress.com)
Publication Date: July 2008
Binding / Size: Paperback / 7×10
Pages: 160
Photos / Illustrations: 300+ full color images
ISBN: 978-1-933990-09-5
Suggested Retail Price: $29.95

The book is a compilation of the last 10 years of Rare Coin Investments’ Top 100 Insights and Value Guide quarterly newsletter. It includes the first Fall, 1997 Value Guide with prices for Top 100 Morgan dollars as well as a current Value Guide to compare how prices of Top 100 coins have changed over the past decade since publication of the Top 100 book.

A Decade of Top 100 Insights offers wisdom, experience and knowledge from the world’s most recognized experts on the subject of Morgan and Peace dollars. According to Jeff Oxman, Founding President of the SSDC, “Peruse the pages of this book, and you’ll get a glimpse of VAM history unfolding before your eyes!”

Noted author Bill Fivaz states “Michael Fey has put his considerable talents to work in assembling all the pertinent data to make your quest for those elusive VAMs as easy as can be”. Leroy Van Allen advises, “This book is a ‘must buy’ for all silver dollar collectors and dealers”.

The book offers digital images of new discoveries, ultra rare 8TF varieties, attribution guides to 1878-s B1 reverse (long nocks), 1888-O Oval O’s, 1899-O “micro o” varieties, and Hot 50 and Top 50 varieties. Also provided are several Condition Census (Top 6 certified coins), population reports and analyses, reportes on new record prices, and insights into the best Top 100 varieties in the most optimal grades for both collecting and investing.

Through such guest writers as Leroy Van Allen, Jeff Oxman, Bill Fivaz, Larry Briggs, Mark Kimpton, M.D., John Roberts, David Wang, Ph.D., Lewis Rosenbaum, and Craig Lichenbrock, the book provides new information, new perspectives and plenty of good advice from experts in their silver dollar specialties who share insights into this burgeoning area of collecting.

This book will help you learn:
- About new rare and desirable Top 100s and other new discoveries
- All about 1878 8-TF varieties, the “Caviar of Morgan Dollars”
- Which silver dollar varieties are the rarest and most desirable
- How to attribute various 1878-S B1 Reverses and 1888-O Oval O and 1899-O Micro O varieties
- About rare silver dollar variety populatios and Condition Census coins
- Important insights into the silver dollar variety market, collecting and investing
- Key information about record prices and the historical values of silver dollar varieties
- How to find new VAMs and publicize your silver dollar discoveries
- How to get in the VAM Hall of Fame
- Insights from world-class silver dollar variety experts, and so much more…

Binding: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: June 2008
Size: 3.75×6
Pages: 137

The appendixes are chock full of interesting information on among other things, patterns, private re-strikes, error coins, and the mysterious E & L countermarks, along with several useful charts, die re-marriage listings, and much, much more!!

The finished book is slated to hopefully be back from the printer before the ANA show in Baltimore and is now on sale at an introductory pre-publication price of just $79.00 delivered. This price is only good until July 15th, at which time it will be raised to $89.00 plus postage. Get yours ordered today!

Please send all payments, comments and questions to:
Steve M. Tompkins
P.O. Box 1946
Sequim, WA 98382
Smt115@aol.com

But the rest of the story trailed off to a few odd details. One of the boys died young, the other ran into trouble with the law. No one seemed to know more.

A lifelong coin collector,  Author Leonard Augsburger was determined to uncover the rest of the story. What happened to the kids? The gold? Who buried it in the first place?

Meticulously researched, Treasure in the Cellar delves into the lives of the boys and their families, recreates the hours at the police station after the boys reported what they found, and describes months of courtroom drama as descendents of several former property owners came forward, each claiming the fortune for themselves.

Paperback copies can be ordered from Amazon.com while hardbound (priced at $30) and deluxe leather-bound editions can be ordered directly from Len at Amazon at leonard_augsburger@hotmail.com.

About the Author:

Leonard Augsburger is an engineering manager in the telecommunications industry. He has written numerous articles for numismatic hobby periodicals and is a frequent speaker at numismatic events. He is a member of the Maryland Historical Society, the American Numismatic Association, and the American Numismatic Society.

The Rebel and the Rose has been nominated for the Jefferson Davis Award by the Museum of the Confederacy for outstanding narrative works. According to Museum director John Coski, the purpose of the award is to “stimulate continued interest in scholarly research and serious writing about one of the most important periods in American History.”

“This may be the most colorful and adventurous story of the great Civil War era, and it is brought to life for the first time by two new authors and dedicated researchers, Wesley Millett and Gerald White. Everything is here: war, gold, illicit love, mysterious romance, and all with meticulous documentation. Rarely does a book come along that adds to the vast body of knowledge on the war. I am pleased to say that The Rebel and the Rose joins the works of authors committed to correcting long-accepted statements that are incomplete, misleading, or simply untrue. More than that, Millett and White bring to light for the first time details about events that have eluded writers since the war ended.”

– Doug Wead, author of the New York Times bestseller All the Presidents’ Children

More information on the book is available Here

This book consists of detailed analyses of each Business Strike from 1916-1947 and Proof Issues from 1936-1942. Strike, luster, rarity analysis, pricing data, prices realized and significant examples are examined and each coin is imaged in a high-resolution format for sharp detailed photos.

Price: $29.95 from the publisher – Zyrus Press

FREE SHIPPING if you pre-order this book before June 1st! Order online now or call (888) 622-7823 to reserve your copy today!

* ISBN-10: 1-933990-17-1
* ISBN-13: 978-1-933990-17-0
* Edition: 1
* Publication Year: June 2008
* Binding / Size: Paperback 7×10
* Photos / Illustrations: 150 B&W images
* Pages: 200

Emperors and assassins, owls and turtles, gods and goddesses, brave heroes and villainous rogues–all of these and more await you among the 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, a personal guided tour of the numismatic antiquities of Greece, Rome, the Byzantine Empire, and other parts of the ancient world.

Each of the 100 Greatest Ancient Coins was voted into place by leading collectors, dealers, researchers, curators, and historians. Inside you’ll find prized and seldom-seen rarities—the unique and high-valued coins that collectors dream about. Berk also explores more readily available and widely popular coins: those so beautiful or with such fascinating stories that everybody wants one. The biblical Tribute Penny so famously “rendered unto Caesar” by Jesus, the silver owls of Athens and turtles of Aegina, the “Eid Mar” denarius struck by Brutus to celebrate his assassination of Julius Caesar, and dozens more are pictured in striking full color.

“100 Greatest Ancient Coins is not just a price guide or a fancy picture book,” says Whitman publisher Dennis Tucker. “It’s a time machine that takes the reader to a hundred different points in world history. And it’s a fascinating introduction to the hobby of collecting these important coins.”

The book is coffee-table-size, 144 pages, full color, with outstanding photographs and engaging stories for every coin. Retail price is $29.95.

Order Here directly from the Publisher