Strike It Rich With Pocket Change

An A&AN Review

March 22, 2011

Krause Publications
Soft Cover
$19.99
ISBN: 978-1-4402-1578-0
The change in your pocket may be worth much more than you think. Imagine fishing for coins to buy a candy bar and discovering a nickel worth $50. Not a bad day! In this third edition of their classic book, treasure hunters Dr. Brian Allen and Ken Potter unveil the secrets to spotting rare coins the average collector would never notice - coins that are valuable owing to a small but significant number of mistakes that happen in the U.S. Mint, due to production mishaps.
Coin collecting, or numismatics, is one of the oldest hobbies known. According to Potter and Allen, the collecting of Mint errors is a relatively new dimension of the hobby that has firmly established itself within the last few decades. The U.S. Mint’s new 50 states quarter program, the introduction of a new dollar coin, and recent media attention to several “rare errors” have all spurred an increase in awareness of what can be found in circulating coinage, although much of it has led to misconceptions about what is collectible and valuable and what isn’t. This is the book to help you “sort” it out!
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