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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 191792, member: 3011&quot;]I stopped reading coin books because they are incredibly repetitive and sometimes not particularly useful to the average collector.&nbsp; Most of them probably should be pamphlets and not entire books, but I guess the publishers require a certain length even if most of it is just filler.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I think Photograde is very good and it&#039;s probably worth keeping a price guide around.&nbsp; Everybody buys the Redbook but I like the North American Coins &amp; Prices guide better because it also includes Mexican and Canadian coins and covers more grades.&nbsp; I also really like the Standard Catalog of Hard Times Tokens by Rulau for the historical information as much as the token information, but if you don&#039;t collect tokens there isn&#039;t much reason to buy it.&nbsp; The Civil War Token Collectors Guide by Kanzinger is also an excellent read because there is a lot of information on getting started in collecing tokens, what to look for, and some very unique views on the forces that impact pricing that I haven&#039;t read anyplace else.&nbsp; The downside is that there are very few photos in the book and if you don&#039;t collect tokens there isn&#039;t much reason to get it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Try the library.&nbsp; At least that way you are only losing time, but not losing money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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