The One-Minute Coin Expert, 4th Edition (One Minute Coin Expert) (Mass Market Paperback)
May 19, 2009 by Coin Master
Filed under Collector Coin Guide Reviews
Review
“The best of its kind — ever! I can’t imagine any other book being as authoritative, comprehensive, and concise.”
– Vincent Sgro, Bloomberg News
“The most important coin book of its kind.”
– COINage magazine — Review
Review
“The best of its kind — ever! I can’t imagine any other book being as authoritative, comprehensive, and concise.”
– Vincent Sgro, Bloomberg News
“The most important coin book of its kind.”
– COINage magazine
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really interesting
As a complete beginner, I found this an interesting book to read. It seems to cover both the finance side of coin collecting along with the hobby aspect, something I appreciated…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Valuable asset to increase your Assets!
If you have ever had a coin in your pocket you need to have this book in your library. Scott A. Travers is an amazing writer who carefully and thoughtfully explains everything you…
I read a good part of this book while flying from Athens to Vienna and I have mixed feeling about it. The book itself, as a publication that is, is way below present-day acceptable standards with b&w low resolution (bearly distinguisable) photos of coins on a dark-brown recyclable paper. Altough the content is always more important than the cover, the overall quality bothered me a lot. Content-wise the situation is much better. Altough I am not really interested in US coin varieties, presenting mint errors, how they were made or how much they cost, what to consider etc is helpful for every collector and I did learn a couple of new things. What I especially enjoyed was the coin grading guide which was quite thorough and extended to many pages. This was quite rewarding as it was one of the most important reasons I purchased the book in the first place. I also liked the information about the coin market, which -although commonsensical in large part- made an interesting reading and helped me in a couple of investing decisions. to conclude, I did gain knowledge from this book, but apart from the grading stuff it was more of a light reading than a source of great information. Since it costs only a few dollars, I would recommend it to beginners but certainly not to experienced collectors.
Scott Travers makes numismatical things easy to understand. A great book for all. I highly reccommend it!