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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 812870, member: 4552&quot;]I collect the hard cover versions and have all of them up to present. </p><p>As to the prices at the coin shows I go to I purchase the latest ringed versions for $10 each. Hard cover for usually $12. All hard covered versions go on a shelf in a bookcase and most have never been opened. I keep one ringed version at my computer and one in the basement, both for referencing. </p><p>As to the question about what good is this book if the prices are rediculous. </p><p>Not completely true. Although most dealers should and usually do sell coins for much less than the Red Book prices, the prices still are a decent GUIDE to prices for comparing with other coins. For example you still could look to see the prices of a Mercury Dime 31D and compare with a 31S for example. Then sit and wonder why the 31S is valued at more in higher grades than the 31D although over 500,000 more of the 31S. </p><p>Now this is a good test since many will now open thier Red Books to see if that is true. </p><p>Back to prices of the Red Book itself. I previously mentioned a conversation with Whitman Publishing where they stated they have a discounted price for bulk purchasers of any of their products. So if a dealer purchases the Red Book for a really low price from them and wants to keep you as a customer, that dealer might pass along the savings to you. </p><p>As to the prices now on Amazon. Note the revision of the Red Book. The 2010 is still being sold and even Whitman is now discounting that issue. The 2011 will be officially out in early April. </p><p>It really pays to go to the Whitman Web site to see all the books they now produce. Almost all are at some of the coin shows I go to. </p><p>At a coin show today there was a dealer with a table full of about 30 different coin books. He is the one I usually get the Red Books from. Also, fantastic deals on 2x2&#039;s, plastic rolls, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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