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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 254917, member: 4703&quot;]Theoretically the Red Book is a retail price guide and the Blue Book is a wholesale price guide.&nbsp; Neither one is a <u>good</u> price guide.&nbsp; The Red Book also has much more general collecting information in it than the Blue - or at least it did up to the Blue Book&#039;s&nbsp; 57th Edition (dated 2000, but copyright and published in 1999), the last time I bought one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The full titles are &quot;The Official BLUE BOOK Handbook of UNITED STATES COINS&quot; and &quot;The Official&nbsp; RED BOOK A Guide Book of United States Coins&quot;.&nbsp; The Blue Book refers to itself as &quot;The Authoritative Annual Guide to Dealer Buying Prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW the 2000 dated Red Book, published in 1999, is the 54th Edition.&nbsp; The first edition of the Blue Book was published in 1942 according to the back cover.&nbsp; The first Red Book wasn&#039;t published until 1946 according to its back cover notes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Both books show RS Yeoman as author and Kenneth Bressett as Editor, although Ken Bressett actually took over completely&nbsp; from Yeoman quite a few years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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