A Penny Saved: R.S. Yeoman and His Red Book

Coin collectors have depended on A Guide Book of United States Coins for generations, making the Official Red Book a world-renowned bestseller with more than 25 million copies sold. Today its famous red cover can be spotted at coin shops, conventions, auctions, and on the bookshelves of collectors from coast to coast. But the Red Book had its humble beginnings with a small Wisconsin publishing company, a simple penny board, and a man who would become a numismatic giant: Richard Sperry Yeo, ...