Has grade-by-grade values, auction records, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data. This volume covers everything from early colonial copper tokens to hefty Old West Silver dollars and dazzling gold coins. Includes 32,500+ prices for more than 7,600 coins, tokens, medals, sets, and other collectibles. Also has information on commemoratives, Proof and Mint coins, error coins, Civil War Tokens, Confederate coins, private gold, and all the latest National Park quarters, Presidential and Native American dollars, Lincoln cents, and more. Includes articles on investing, grading coins, and detecting counterfeits and contains essays on the history of American coinage, shipwrecks and hoards, and the modern rare-coin market.