In the back of the Red Book there is a price guide for past issues. Most of the 70's issues list for $4-5 in VF. The first printing 1947 lists for $750. But, like everything else, they are worth what someone is willing to pay.
If you have the latest edition look at pages 392 and 393 for that price guide of the old Red Books. I collect them and have all editions from 8 to present. All in never opened condition though. For some dumb reason when I was a kid I always bought 2 of them and used 1 and saved the other. At coin shows lately I've seen people selling the older editions for more than the prices listed in the Red Book itself. I've been trying to find Editions 1 to 7 for a long time but the prices are getting out of reason. At a flea market last year there was a guy selling a pile of the 21 to 30 editions and someone bought the whole pile before I could even find out the prices.
wow, i have one from the 60's, i would see mine for that price in a second and buy a nice key date coin!!
I pick them up when I see them for a good price...I have 6-8....they are pretty cool to look at! Speedy
I like to use some older books as a historical price database. It helps answer questions such as how high can the price of a certain coin go? How much will the price of a gold coin drop if gold goes to $300? What has been the price trend over the years? and things like that. This helps zero-in on a coin's approximate long term value. Too many people think something like the greysheet represents some sort of absolute "value" when it really represents a current bid or ask price. But then again, none of this really relates to the value of the book as a collectible....
Not-Needed Value Whitman probably put that in the back of the book so they could sell the extra books from a while ago that they had for a good sum of money. But, some people do find good value in them. (Ha! :mouth Well, you still could sell them to those people!
