This book was written for new collectors who want to learn about coin collecting and the fastest growing area of collecting, error coins.

This guide has over 3,500 listings for all types of errors with more than 20,000 listings, updated annually. The values provided give a collector the advantage of buying and selling error coins.

Coin collecting basics such as coin details, coin specifications, mintmarks, mint locations, coin mintages, and coins in circulation are all musts for new collectors. Understanding how dies are made and how coins are minted helps understand error coins and how errors occur.

The three major error categories, planchet, die, and striking errors, are described in detail with descriptions and photos.
Cleaning coins, handling, and preservation are critical to becoming a successful collector and getting the most profit for error coins. Obtaining the best equipment for error detection can help the collector find error coins still in circulation.
The importance of coin collecting organizations and detecting counterfeit coins.

Doubled die and RPM error detection using the information in this guide will help a new collector become successful. Finding major and minor error coins and which error coins are not of added value.

Locating error coins is essential for increasing the odds of finding rare error coins. What a machine doubled coin versus an authentic error coin will help new collectors from making mistakes with identification.