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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 3987314, member: 26302&quot;]First, I would never entertain any offer from tv. To put the coins there, they have to mark them up DRAMATICALLY. You will ALWAYS get better pricing from dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, if you are interested in a particular series, ask here on CT if someone knows a good reference book. You are asking for an overall book on &quot;coin collecting&quot;. Someone may have a suggestion, but I do not overall. You can educate yourself by reading lots of posts here. As a perspective, I used to collect US coins, and now ancients. I have about 1000 books about coins in my library. I have nowhere near as many as I need, but ancients are like that. You may fall in love like [USER=24633]@cpm9ball[/USER] with 19th century French medals. I am sure there is a good book about those.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for art bars versus melt, it depends. Some art bars are collectible, others are not really so they go down to their intrinsic metal value. I am not up on that market, so you would have to ask others. However, some do have pretty strong markets, and there ARE people here who could help you if that is your interest. I know quite a few people on CT collect silver art bars from the 70&#039;s, one specializes in Coca Cola ones if I recall. I bet you there is a book that covers the topic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I alluded earlier, HUGE field. You can and will get lost if you look at &quot;everything artistic&quot; because nearly everything in numismatics is artistic. Look around, see what really stands out to you, and start reading posts here and asking questions is the best advice I have sir.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, another area, if you like art, is to search &quot;conder tokens&quot;. They are tokens made in England in the 18-19th century. Full of artistic beauty, hundreds of designs, and many references covering them and relative rarity. If I pursued coins more for artistry than history, I would be drawn to them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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