Strike it Rich with Pocket Change - Softcover

Potter, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440215782 ISBN 13: 9781440215780

Publisher: Ken Potter, 2011

Synopsis

Can You Spot The Errors? This coin looks a bit mangled, as if a car ran over it. It's really a copper cent struck on a silver dime. And no, that doesn't make it worth a nickel. The excess of metal at the top of the Lincoln cent is called a cud. It is caused when a piece breaks from the die face and leaving a hole into which the metal flows as the coin is struck. Spot the doubled die on an otherwise common dollar coin. Not all of them can be easily seen with the naked eye. In this case it is at the intersection of the Statue of Liberty's arm and the spike from her crown. An enlarged photograph inside will reveal it. It takes a keen eye to spot them, but errors on coins produced by the U.S. Mint occur every year, and they can be worth money to coin collectors. Strike It Rich with Pocket Change is THE book that shows clear, concise photos of those errors and tells what those coins are worth in today's market. Don't miss out. That cent in your pocket could be worth dollars.

About this title

About the Author

With more than 50 years of coin collecting experience, Ken Potter is an award-winning and prolific writer and photographer with regularly features columns and articles in Numismatic News, Coin World, World Coin News, Canadian Coin News and others. Potter and co-author Dr. Brian Allen received the Extraordinary Merit award from the Numismatic Literary Guild for the first edition of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change.

For more than two decades, Dr. Brian Allen has been an ardent coin collector with a passion for errors and varieties in circulating pocket change. He has made numerous variety coin discoveries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ken Potter
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440215782
• ISBN 13: 9781440215780
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 352