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Circa: 2006
Manufacturer: Whitman Publishing
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Complete Source for History, Grading, and Prices A Guide Book of Shield and Liberty Head Nickels continues in the tradition of Whitman's best-selling Bowers Series. Richly illustrated in full color, it features high-resolution enlargements for important overdates and other varieties, plus photographs of every coin in the Shield and Liberty Head nickel series. These popular coins are given the famous Q. David Bowers treatment: insightful study, fascinating historical background, and detailed data. Mintages, specifications, certified and field populations, past and current market values, and auction records add to the book's reference value. Four special illustrated galleries round out the text with a rollicking ride through the history of America's favorite coinfrom nickelodeons to "a good five-cent cigar"; from ice cream cones at Coney Island to silent movies "Down at the Bijou Dream.
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