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Collectors' Coins Great Britain 2005

Collectors' Coins Great Britain 2005

by Christopher Henry Perkins (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $204.06
Synopsis

The new 2006 "Collectors' Coins Great Britain" contains, like its predecessors, a complete list of British non gold coins (1797 - 2005) with their varieties listed, values in up to five states of preservation and yearly mintage numbers. For the first time, this edition also includes a wealth of information about the designers of each coin, as well as extra information on the sizes and weights of the coins. The whole book has also been given a stiffer cover with better quality pages and print.

$204.06

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 92
 Edition: 32Rev Ed
 Publisher: Rotographic Publications
Published: 30 Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 0948964421
ISBN 13: 9780948964428

Media Reviews
I can think of one or two hard-backed and rather pricey books on collecting modern coins that fail to provide their buyers with so much as half the useful knowledge served up in a slim A5 paper-back titled Collectors' Coins: Great Britain 2005 that has just crossed my desk. This should not surprise me, bearing in mind that the publishers, Rotographic, can trace their pedigree back to those halcyon pre-decimal days in the early 1970s when anybody with a spirit of adventure and an eye for a bargain carried a copy of the miniscule Check Your Change in his/her pocket or purse; when bank clerks suffered all-day harassment to change pound notes for two-hundred-and-forty-pennies in hope that one of them might be a scarce 1918KN or even a legendary 1933. For non-detectorists those days are gone forever; but weekend searches on any clay soil site still hold the possibility of Treasure Hunter readers finding at least Fine-grade examples of almost any coin from the past two hundred years. So if you missed the chance to buy the previous edition of this little book when I reviewed it about a year ago, here's the very latest opportunity to add a fact-packed and extremely useful publication to your reference shelves for just GBP4.95. You'll get 90-odd pages crammed margin-to-margin with information on every non-gold coin issued in Britain between 1797 and 2004. You'll also get considerably improved illustrations, and a wealth of numismatic erudition served up in bite-sized snippets that make each turn of the page a minor revelation. Better still, you'll have at your fingertips crucial price data culled by the editor and his researchers from a range of sources to ensure that prices quoted are accurate and up-to-the-minute. I'm aware that a lot of Treasure Hunter readers bought the 2004 edition, but let me offer a few reasons why it's worth investing a modest fiver (with 5p change) in this year's edition: a stronger spine and hardier cover means the new book should stand up to a lot of heavy use as you tug it from your pocket to check on that nice Vicky shilling you've just detected; the sharper, brighter clearer illustrations will provide speedy identification of your finds; the improved layout means quicker flicking to the very page where your discovery will be identified; you'll know at a glance the current value of any British coin find from 1797 right up to last year. Go ahead, invest GBP4.95 and pocket a constant reference to rarity and value in modern money. Coming soon: ancient coinage given the same treatment! Watch out for my review of Collectors' Roman Coins Part 1. Ted Fletcher (for Treasure Hunter Magazine). 20 November 2004
Author Bio
Chris Perkins has been a coin dealer specialising in British Coins for a number of years. His main business is Predecimal.com where he sells a range of British coins and accessories for collectors. He exhibits at some major coin fairs and is also involved with BBC 3CR radio as the coin expert on the monthly coin related phone-in.