Books for starting US coin collectors

Hello everybody, I was wondering what are some good books to read for beginning coin collectors, like myself that might want to have as reference and just good beginning knowledge points. I have the Red book, Blue book, and Scott Travers the Coin Collector's Survival Manual.
I suppose it depends on what US coins you want to collect. :hatch: I guess we could narrow it down to Wheat pennies, mercury dimes, Morgan's, Frankie’s, and a book that might encompass multiple coins with great overall points.

 

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Here are a list of several books I recommend

ANA Grading Standards 6th Edition

The Official Red Book of Lincoln Cents

The Official Red Book of Morgan Dollars

As for the Frankie's and Mercs, I don't personally have books to recommend, but I know on that site that I have in the links above, there is one book on each one of those series. You might want to look into getting those as well.

 

I would recommend Rick Tomaska "Complete Guide to Franklin Half Dollars" as a reference to Franklin half's.

http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/the-complete-guide-to-franklin-half-dollars.html

A couple of other references that I have found useful.
Cherrypickers Guide Volume 1 & 2

http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/cherry-pickers-guide-to-die-varities-vol-1.html

Coin Grading & Counterfeit Detection
http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/coin-grading-counterfeit-detection.html

The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of Lincoln Cents
http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/the-official-red-book-a-guide-book-of-lincoln-cents.html

Authoritative Reference on Lincoln Cents
http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/authoritative-reference-on-lincoln-cents.html

The Complete Guide to Mercury Dimes
http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/the-complete-guide-to-mercury-dimes.html

The Authoritative Reference on Roosevelt Dimes
http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/authoritative-reference-on-roosevelt-dimes.html

All these books and quite a few others are in my library. I probably have more books right now than coins.

 

Thanks for the information! I will start looking at those.

 

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I would recommend Photograde. But you have to actually read it and not just look at the pictures, which are extremely helpful too.

 

I also recommend the Official Red Book Guides to your favorite series. Don't forget to use CoinTalk's link to Amazon if you choose to buy from Amazon. (Sticky on top of this forum.)

 

Perhaps this will help.....

http://www.cointalk.com/t110012/