• Author: Don Taxay
• Book is in good condition 
• Dustcover in pretty good shape
• 397 Pages
• 6-3/4" x 9-1/2"

This encyclopedia highlights:

• New approaches to classification problems
• Independent rarity and value guidance
• Opinions on many controversial matters
• Past and present ownership of rarities
• A useful analysis of :
  • Patterns
  • Restrike
  • Mules
  • Errors
  • Spuriosities

After five years of research in the writing, is the catalogue that makes sensible order out ot the jumble of US coin collecting.  For the first time, each and every coin issued in this countryfrom Colonial days to the present has been put in logical sequence and many designated by number, issue by issue and date by date.

Among the outstanding features are:

• Newly assigned numbering system for many coins
• Hundreds of die varieties, errors patterns, etc. now catalogued and numbered
• For the first time, all US coins including varieies under one cover
• Copiously illustrated with each coin fully priced in all known or collectable grades
• Written and compiled by Don Taxay, the brilliant numismatic scholar and a selected board of experts.

This 400 page book represents the distillation of years of experience, study and discussion by the finest brains in the numismatic world.