Book from 1959

09sVDB

Last night my Mom in-law gave me this book and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on it. As I said, it is copywritten 1959 by Doubleday & co. INC. It is titled "A Simplified Guide to Collecting American Coins." The first couple of chapters describes all coins availible at the time and the rest of the book give values in "Red Book" from. It is written by Hugh McGown Knight and an intro by one R. S. Yeoman. Any ideas on value/collectibility? Thanks.
09SVDB

clevegreg

I don't know if that was the "redbook" of it's day, especially since Yeoman is one of the authors? Still sounds very cool, you should pull out some "well known" coins and post what the price was back then

Greg

DHeath

I'm also clueless about the book value, but I'd love to see some of the coin prices, particularly the bust coinage.

09sVDB

Ok here you go:

FEC

1856 Listed as "Rare" 350.00 500.00

Indian cents Grades are only listed in G & F

1877 47.50/80.00
1909S 45.00/57.50


Lincoln Cents

1909S 11.00/15.00
1909SVDB 50.00/75.00
1914D 25.00/50

Liberty Nickel

37.00 50.00

Barber Dime

1894S Listed as "very rare" no value given

Mercury Dime

1916D 47.00 100.00
1921 5.00 25.00
1921D 4.00 25.00

Barber Quarter

1901S 130.00 340.00


SLQ
1916 100.00 175.00

Washington Quarter

1932D 5.00 16.00
1932S 3.50 11.00

1804 Silver dollar Original 13,000.00 Restrike 29,000.00



These are just a few I picked out . If anyone want to see a certain coin you can PM me. Please remember the book only lists values in good and fine.

nucklehead

Interseting to see prices for what the 'keys' where going for back then.