Best-Selling Annual Guide Prices 7,900 Coins

The 71st edition of the hobby’s Guide Book of United States Coins (popularly known as the “Red Book”) will launch at the Whitman Baltimore Coin and Collectibles Expo on March 30, 2017. It features new and extensively updated content reflecting the current market for collectible coins.

Coin collectors have used the Red Book to value their collections since the 1st edition was published in 1946.

At 464 pages the new 71st edition prices 7,900 entries in up to 9 grades each, with more than 33,000 retail valuations in total.  The book has 2,000 images, including enlarged close-ups of rare die varieties, with 442 of them new this year.

“The Red Book is an invaluable source of current price information combined with important historical information for each issue,” said Valuations Editor Jeff Garrett.

“The new Red Book contains the most recent Lincoln cents, Jefferson nickels, Roosevelt dimes, America the Beautiful quarters, Kennedy half dollars, Native American dollars, commemoratives, official Mint coin sets, and bullion coins.”

Go to the article in Coin Update for order information and further details about the new issue.

Source: New OFFICIAL RED BOOK Celebrates 225 Years of U.S. Coinage | Coin Update