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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Moen1305, post: 285316, member: 2544&quot;]Welcome to the forum.&nbsp; Researching a book here, you are likely to get many opinions and a lot of advice.&nbsp; Remember, no one here is an expert but many have lots of knowledge to share anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>A great source of information is always the reference books that collectors use like the Red book.&nbsp; I recently read a book that contained a lot of history about both the mint and coin collecting called&nbsp; &quot;Illegal Tender&quot; by David Tripp.&nbsp; There are many others that would be helpful in the bibliography.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Many fakes are coming out of Asia these days.&nbsp; A bad fake is where someone tries to take a 1946-D Mercury dime and change the first &quot;4&quot; into a &quot;1&quot; so that it becomes a 1916-D a much more valuable year.&nbsp; Some fakes only experts can tell from genuine coins.&nbsp; Most fakes are pretty amature-ish.</p><p><br /></p><p>Only extremely valuable coins would have any kind of documentation and maybe even high definition close-up photos.&nbsp; Coins are mostly certified and &quot;slabbed&quot; by coin grading companies like NGC, PCGS and such.&nbsp; The put them in airtite type plastic containers with labels and the each have a grade that determines their value.&nbsp; I suppose people could try and switch the plastic container but most good coin collects buy the coin not the container.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of our moderators &quot;GD&quot; has a wealth of knowledge in regard to coins of many types.&nbsp; He might be able to help you more directly.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck and I hope I&#039;ve been of some help.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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