Coins (The Collector's Corner)

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Summary: Great overview of coins and collecting
Review: Never has more information and colorful pictures been packed in such a small book. It was this book that encouraged me to start collection porcelain notgeld. The Contents list does not do justice to all the helpful information given in this book.
•The Early Coins
•Making Coins
•What is in a Coin
•Proof and Commemorative Coins and Tokens
•Portraits and Pictorialism Marks and Symbols
•Date, Legends and Inscriptions
•The Coin Collector's Guide

Just one chapter alone (What is in a Coin) it covers
•Gold
•Silver
•Copper
•Platinum
•Nickel
•Iron
•Zinc
•Tin
•Lead
•Aluminum
•Alloys
•Non-metallic (pasteboard, porcelain, stoneware, plastic, wood, etc.)
•Shape (Square, Triangular, Many-sided, Wavy-sided)

And the list goes on.
This is defiantly a good starting place and would make a good present.