📚 Coins

History held in the hand: the standard catalogs, the grading, and the error hunters’ corner of it.

Below are the 28 works carrying the subject coins in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Catalogue of the world's most popular coins	Fred Reinfeld	1956	20
	American Buffalo	David Mamet	1976	14
	Standard catalog of world coins	Chester L. Krause	1977	13
	The evolution of coinage	George MacDonald	1916	12
	Coin types, their origin and development	George MacDonald	1905	9
	U.S. Coins of Value	Norman Stack	1966	7
	The coin collector's survival manual	Scott A. Travers	1984	7
	Coin collecting for dummies	Neil S. Berman	2008	7
	Coins	John Porteous	1964	5
	The official American Numismatic Association grading standards for United States coins	American Numismatic Association.	1977	5
	Coins	Clifford Mishler	1985	4
	The Coin Counting Book	Rozanne Lanczak Williams	2001	4
	Follow the Money!	Loreen Leedy	2002	4
	Modern coin magic	J. B. Bobo	1952	3
	Coin World guide to U.S. coins, prices & value trends	William T. Gibbs	1999	3
	Penny	Denise Brennan-Nelson	2003	3
	Strike it rich with pocket change	Brian Allen	2006	3
	Strike it rich with pocket change	Ken Potter	2011	3
	The penny pot	Stuart J. Murphy	1998	2
	Cherrypickers' guide to rare die varieties of United States coins	Bill Fivaz	2006	2
	Dollar varieties and errors scrapbook	Leroy C. Van Allen	1979	1
	The error coin encyclopedia	Arnold Margolis	1991	1
	The official identification and price guide to minting varieties and errors	Alan Herbert	1991	1
	Coin Divination	Raymond Buckland	2000	1
	The coins of the Indian sultanates	Stan Goron	2001	1
	Coin Clinic 2	Alan Herbert	2004	1
	100 greatest U.S. error coins	Nicholas P. Brown	2010	1
	The Official Price Guide to Mint Errors, 7th Edition (Official Price Guide to Mint Errors)	Alan Herbert	2007	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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