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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 729538, member: 4552"]As already noted it is true that it is a really good book for information and things like the quantity minted. However, the amount Minted is sometimes irrelevant to a coins prices. Examples are the 1931S Lincoln Cent, the 31D Mercury Dime, etc. where if you go by quantities minted, you would suspect those would be of a much higher price range. Just ain't necessarily so. The worst part of carrying a Red Book is that almost every dealer I know would say if you do carry one your an amateur and really have no concept of coin pricing. Then too they would possibly raise their prices if not marked knowing if you look in that book for a price, it is overstated drastically so why not charge you that. If you look up a price in that book and then try to haggle a price down with a dealer at a coin show, the dealer would just say OK I'll let you have it for xxx. This would probably be the highest price he would ask anyone else for knowing they will haggle him down. In addition to that, I'm old and just don't want to carry anything heavy for no reason. I suppose there are those that may have them with, but like I said so far in all the years at coin shows, only once did I see someone with one and he was really young.[/QUOTE]