The Red Book is a great tool but most collectors will tell you to take it will a grain of salt---its printed a few months before its put out so the prices are off most of the time and the coins that come out the year of the book aren't in there. Also--I wouldn't suggest buying coins becasue they will go up---if you do that you will be sad when they go down---coins are risky and I never suggest anyone buy them thinking that they are going to make a quick or slow $$$...buy the coin becasue you like it not because it might go up. Speedy