Collecting US commemorative coins is like compiling a photo album of the nation's history. Each collector can build a set that has it own unique and personal significance. Bowers chronicles their history, from 1892 to the presents, and gives you advice on becoming a smart buyer.

Provides descriptions and the most recent prices for United States commemorative coins, discusses grading, and offers tips on buying.

* The only coin-price book with full-color photographs of actual coins throughout. * Complete coverage from great rarities to statehood quarters and modern commemoratives and sets. * Prices given in multiple grades reflecting the categories most often collected. * Prepared by a staff of experts in consultation with over 100 coin hobby leaders-dealers, researchers, and collectors. * Mintage records for all federal coins. * Grading information for each coin series and type. * Colonial and early American coins, federal coins, commemoratives, Proof and other sets, and more. * Bullion table to determine changing gold and silver values. * Historical information, die variety details (with enlarged photographs).

More than 700 new full-color photographs, updated mintages and coin values, new auction records, additional pattern pieces, expanded coverage of Civil War tokens, and the latest commemoratives, sets, and other coins.

Since 1946 the Guide Book of United States Coins (the "Red Book") has served collectors as the preeminent annual reference for coin specifications, mintages, values, and photographs. With more than 22 million copies in print, the Guide Book is well established as the hobby's most popular reference. Now in its 2nd edition, the Professional Edition of the Guide Book of United States Coins builds on this strong foundation. This expanded and enlarged volume is intended for the intermediate to advanced coin collector, the professional coin dealer, the auctioneer, the researcher, and the investor. Its combination of more photographs, detailed higher-grade valuations, listings of additional varieties (with closeup photographs) and rare early Proof coins, certified-coin population data, auction records, and other resources provides a wealth of information on every coin type ever made by the U.S. Mint.

The Number 1 bestselling coin price guide has just gotten better, with more than 200 full-color photos, values showing the latest coin price trends, and information on all-new commemorative coins and statehood designs. Perfect bound.