The Official Blue Book Handbook of United States Coins 2010 (Handbook of United States Coins (Paper))
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: Kenneth Bressett
- Publisher: Whitman Publishing
- Release Date: May 2009
- ISBN-10: 0794827764
- ISBN-13: 9780794827762
- List Price: $9.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
coin book
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The book was purchased as new, however, when I opened it, the cover was upside down - and backwards. I have kept the book, I do not want the hassle of returning it.
Helpful tool
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This is just the tool I needed to check about hundreds of coins my late mother left her grandsons, hoping some might be of value. This is an interesting all-u-need-to-know publication.
very useful
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Easy to use catalogue -- most informative
Helped me get good prices for commemoratibe silver coins
Perfect!!!!
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Just what I wanted. Will get a lot of good information from it. Top quality product!!!
Buy the Red Book!
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This Blue Book is nearly identical to the Red Book. Here's the main difference, if the coin value is 40 in the Red Book, it's listed as 20 in the Blue Book. That's it. Since I had a 2009 Red Book, it was a big waste of money to purchase a 2010 Blue Book. There is no additional information, the price values are merely cut by 50 percent. Very disappointing.
In addition, the Red is sold with a very nice wired binding for easy page turning. The Red lays flat on your table. The Red has color photographs (Blue is B/W). Don't buy both books. Pick one and you are forever set.
Pricing in the both guides are inaccurate. I watch PCGS and NGC graded coins on eBay. The grade of the coin is without question. I compare the selling price to the book and it is sometimes close, but often well off. Half of the graded coins sold on eBay are more then 40 percent off the Red Book price. So, what is the point of an up to date price guide, if it isn't up to date?
Both PCGS and NGC give free value guides about their graded coins. Just go to their site and type in their serial number stamped on the slabbed coin case, you'll get a price guide. I have found this guide to be more accurate then the book.
The important value of the book is the information and photographs of the coins. The Red Book color photographs are excellent. Great info too. But you only need one of these books because the info is duplicated between the two editions.
I wish the Blue Book would have explained why some coins wholesale for slightly more, or slightly less, than purely 50 percent of retail. Are some classes of coin appreciating faster then others? The book gives no answers.
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