This handy guide will help you make the most of your collecting interest, whether youve been collecting for centuries, or only a short time. Filled with 450 brilliant color photos and illustrations, advice on coin grading, detecting counterfeits, and properly handling coins and notes, this handy book is valuable during visits to coin shops, online coin and paper money auctions, and while doing general research. This portable reference is big on information about U.S. nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, dollars, gold coins, new state quarters and new nickels, and demand notes, treasury notes, national bank notes, national gold bank notes, silver certificates, and confederate state issues.