Cash in Your Coins: Selling the Rare Coins You've Inherited

by Beth Deisher, Q David Bowers (Foreword by)

Overview

Your guide on this journey is author Beth Deisher, an award-winning journal and retired editor of Coin World, the hobby s premier news weekly. Drawing on more than 35 years of experience helping people understand and collect coins and paper currency, Deisher shows you how to identify what you own, how to create an inventory, how to pick out extra-valuable coins, how to value a large estate, talking the talk when you go to sell, the effect of the fiscal cliff and recent estate-and tax-related legislation, and other important and valuable lessons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780794847241
Publisher:	Whitman Publishing
Publication date:	06/25/2019
Series:	Cash in Your Coins
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	648,060
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Q. David Bowers vi

Publisher's Preface ix

Author's Preface xii

Chapter 1 Can You Answer This Question? 1

Chapter 2 Preparing to Look at Your Coins 16

Chapter 3 The Basics of Identification 30

Chapter 4 The Adventure Begins 38

Chapter 5 Identifying U.S. Coins by Design Type 50

Chapter 6 Uncirculated and Proof Sets 146

Chapter 7 Identifying U.S. Paper Money by Design Type 160

Chapter 8 If It's Not a U.S. Coin 170

Chapter 9 Creating an Inventory 182

Chapter 10 Determining Value 192

Chapter 11 Independent Appraisals 228

Chapter 12 Taxes 236

Chapter 13 Talking the Talk 254

Chapter 14 Finding a Buyer 266

Appendix A Bullion Value of Silver Coins 285

Appendix B Bullion Value of Gold Coins 286

About the Author and Acknowledgments 287

Index 289

Editorial Reviews

You're not entirely certain if grand dad's coin collection will pay for your daughters' college education or simply molder on a shelf. Instead of risking your future fortune by blindly accepting the offers of strangers, it's wise to make a less than ten dollar investment in this instant education. In its 228 pages, specialist Beth Deisher (Coin World Almanac; Making the Grade) delineates what you need to know about the coins that you have inherited. Trustworthy and cheap.