Strike It Rich with Pocket Change: Error Coins Bring Big Money

by Ken Potter, Brian Allen

Overview

In the authors' own words, this new edition of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change, dispels the myths of error coins and assists you in discovering, marketing, and researching rare coins that you can find in your pocket change.

More than 350 close-up illustrations, key identifying details and current market values help you decipher the difference between proper and error issues and varying types of coins. In addition, this unique must-have how-to also includes:

   • Coverage of Lincoln Memorial Cents, Roosevelt Dimes, Washington Quarters, John F. Kennedy Half Dollars, State Quarters
   • Expert insight and advice about tools of the trade, preserving coins, buying and selling error-variety coins
   • Terms and definitions associated with error coins


Whether it's a Jefferson Presidential dollar missing edge lettering, that's worth $2,000 - $10,000 plus or a Lincoln cent with trail marks that make it an error worth $1 - $3 there are hidden treasures to be found in your pocket change, if you know what to look for.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593328613
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/04/2021
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	361,408
File size:	220 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

With more than 50 years of coin collecting experience, Ken Potter is an award-winning and prolific writer and photographer with regularly features columns and articles in Numismatic News, Coin World, World Coin News, Canadian Coin News and others. Potter and co-author Dr. Brian Allen received the Extraordinary Merit award from the Numismatic Literary Guild for the first edition of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change.For more than two decades, Dr. Brian Allen has been an ardent coin collector with a passion for errors and varieties in circulating pocket change. He has made numerous variety coin discoveries.

Table of Contents

Notable 10 3

Dedication 10

Acknowledgments 11

Introduction 12

Who Will Discover the Next $25k Transitional Error? 14

Age Does Not Always Equal Value 16

Foreign Coins 17

Circulated Coin Conditions 18

Uncirculated Coin Conditions 20

Authors' Disclaimer 21

Grades Covered in This Book 21

Tools of the Trade 22

Preserving Your Finds 24

Valuable vs. Other Forms of Doubling 26

Treatment of Minor Varieties and Errors 35

Getting Started 37

How to Use This Book 38

Lincoln Cent Varieties 39

Jefferson Nickel Varieties 170

Roosevelt Dime Varieties 216

Washington Quarter Varieties 237

John F. Kennedy Half Dollar Varieties 280

Dollar Varieties 295

Collecting Errors: An Interesting Venture 322

Buying and Selling Error, Variety Coins 335

Where to Sell Your Coins 338

Sources for Coin Information 342

Third-Party Coin Grading & Variety

Attribution Companies 347

Frequently Asked Questions 349

Myths About Various Coins 351

Common Currency Questions 357

Circulating Silver Coinage 359

Coin Terms and Definitions 363

Bibliography 368