DESCRIPTION
A Guide Book of Shield and Liberty Head Nickels features enlargements for important overdates and other varieties, plus actual-size photographs of every coin in the Shield and Liberty Head series. These popular coins are given the famous Bowers treatment: insightful study, lots of fascinating historical background, and good storytelling. Certified and field populations, historical and current market values, and auction records add to the book s reference value. The chapter on five-cent pattern pieces, with brand-new research from experts in the field, is alone worth the price of admission ! Four special illustrated galleries round out the text with a rollicking ride through the history of America s favorite coin-from nickelodeons to a good five-cent cigar ; from ice cream cones at Coney Island to silent movies Down at the Bijou Dream. Full color throughout; illustrated; 288 pages. Softcover.
