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Message:: [QUOTE="David Hughes, post: 2053605, member: 73184"]Well you are right. There are so many books to reference for the beginner to name them all.  I would suggest for your first book maybe The official Red Book "A Guide Book of United States Coins". This book has every coin minted by the United States, it gives you a VERY Basic start to grading each coin series (I did say VERY BASIC). It allowes you to get a look and see what coins may trip your trigger and it gives you a look at what the prices are for these coins (keep in mind that even if this book has just came out it is already a year old but a great reference).  I would maybe suggest the next purchase to be (not a book but still great reference) maybe a magazine, maybe something like Coin World. It has many Great stories and very informative.  As a beginner (which isn't his this started) you really don't (in my opinion) need to go out and get every book on the shelf. Most are specialty books and unless you know what coin or coins you would like to start with you don't need a shelf full of things you probably won't read for a while.  So with this said these would be (in my opinion) the best for a person just getting started and even the more advanced collectors.   When you decide if and what you want to collect their will be lots of time to get the books that meet your needs.  Now the statement "Buy the Book before the Coin" I stick with.[/QUOTE]