The Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Coins 2009, 47th Edition

House of Collectibles.[Rumford, ME, 616 p.

 This guide lists every U.S. coin ever minted and more than 18,000 coin prices. An essential guide for collectors, it also features:

· Extensive information on buying and selling coins at auction, coins shows, online, and through the mail

· A full explanation of the American Numismatic Association’s official grading system

· A fast-find coin index for easy coin identification, as well as hundreds of coin photographs

 We have tried to make this book more than just another coin guide. Now, more than ever before, there is a real need for up-to-date, reliable information on coins for anyone interested in collecting or investing. We- have carefully analyzed all circumstances of the recent gold and silver rush and tried to interpret them as usefully as possible. While we are not in the business of making predictions we've set forth our best opinions about what the future may hold in store, and tried to summarize the events of the very hectic past six months or so. But we also realize that coins remain, first and foremost, a collectors' hobby and have designed this book not only for the collector/investor but the beginner, the mildly experienced numismatist, and the coin buff who is just as interested in the art and history of coins as in their cash prices. It has often been said that coins mirror the past and that a study of them can be as informative as a library of history books. Their role in the future - in the world economics and politics - may be greater than at any period in history.