Guide Book of United States Coins 40th Edition 1987 Hardcover

This listing is for A Guide Book of United States Coins 40th Edition 1987 Hardcover.

Publisher: Western Publishing; 40TH edition (July 1, 1986)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0307198715

ISBN-13: 978-0307198716  

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.S. coin price guide. The Guide Book and Handbook got their nicknames (and now official trademarks), the "Red Book" and the "Blue Book," due to their respective solid red and blue covers. Both books are published annually, dated for the following year. The Red Book lists the retail price of all United States coins from colonial issues to modern circulating U.S. coins, including each year of issue, mint marks, and significant design variations. In addition, the Red Book lists commemorative coins, mint sets and proof sets, and bullion coins, as well as significant U.S. pattern coins, private and territorial gold, Hard-times tokens and Civil War tokens. Also listed are Confederate issues, Hawaiian tokens and coins, Philippine issues and Alaskan tokens. Each listing includes variable prices based on a coin's measured quality, or grade.

A Guide Book of United States Coins (the Red Book) is the longest running price guide for U.S. coins. Between all formats, 24 million copies have been sold. The first edition, dated 1947, went on sale November 1946. Except for a one-year hiatus in 1950, publication has continued to the present. R. S. Yeoman was the founding compiler of the Red Book while employed at Whitman Publishing. In 1942, Yeoman had served as a founding co-editor of Whitman Publishing's Handbook of United States Coins (the Blue Book). The Blue Book was successful in giving hobbyists an overview of U.S. coin history and coin wholesale values (prices coin dealers would pay for collectors to sell coins). However, Yeoman believed collectors wanted even more information on their coins, so he began to compile the Red Book. Delayed until the end of World War II, the Red Book was published in 1946, providing collectors even more historical information as well as retail values (prices collectors could expect to pay coin dealers to buy coins) instead of wholesale values. R. S. Yeoman served as editor of the Red Book and Blue Book until he retired in 1970. In 1971 his assistant, Kenneth Bressett, took over as the editor. Bressett himself retired in 2017, and currently serves as editor emeritus. Jeff Garrett has since served as senior editor of the Red Book and Blue Book, while Q. David Bowers has served as senior editor of the Deluxe Edition of the Red Book since 2018. Yeoman and Bressett remain listed on each edition of the Red Book and Blue Book as their editor. The book's all-time peak print run for a single year was 1.2 million copies in 1965. In 2022, the Red Book is in its 76th edition (dated 2023) and the Blue Book is in its 80th edition (dated 2023).

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