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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 29, July 19, 2015, Article 8

NEW BOOK: GUIDE BOOK OF MERCURY DIMES, STANDING LIBERTY QUARTERS, AND LIBERTY WALKING HALF DOLLARS

Dennis Tucker of Whitman Publishing forwarded this press release for the newest Bowers Guide Book. Thanks. -Editor

Guide Book of Mercury Dimes etc. Whitman Publishing has released the first edition of A Guide Book of Mercury Dimes, Standing Liberty Quarters, and Liberty Walking Half Dollars. The 320-page book by Q. David Bowers offers pricing, grading instructions, series histories, and guidance on how to build high-quality collections of these popular coins. It is available from booksellers and hobby shops nationwide, and online (including at www.Whitman.com), for $29.95. The book can also be borrowed for free as a benefit of membership in the American Numismatic Association, through the Dwight N. Manley Numismatic Library.

Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty quarters, and Walking Liberty half dollars were minted between 1916 and 1947—a span of time that included two world wars, the end of the Progressive Era, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. Today the three silver coins are among the American classics most often found in old-time collections. Thousands of active hobbyists seek them, from casual collectors to die-variety specialists and registry-set competitors.

The new Guide Book provides instructions on how to grade these coins, tips on smart buying, retail values in multiple grades (including Proofs), certified-population data, and an analysis of each date and mintmark. Richly illustrated in full color, the book features high-resolution enlargements for important overdates and other die varieties. Mintages, specifications, and other details add to the book’s importance as a standard reference, and colorful essays set the coins in the context of their historical era.

Eight appendices include biographies of the coins’ designers; histories of the mints that struck them; information about the U.S. Mint directors and superintendents of 1916 to 1947; pattern coins of 1916; misstruck and error coins; the American Silver Eagle redesign that used the Liberty Walking motif; the Mint’s gold 1916–2016 centennial coins; and techniques of smart purchasing and negotiating.

Guide Book of Mercury Dimes etc p141 Guide Book of Mercury Dimes etc p199

“Bowers is an expert guide,” says foreword writer Roger W. Burdette. “His journeys are always enjoyable, filled with fresh insights and unexpected tangents. This is a book to be read, put aside, then re-read.”

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A Guide Book of Mercury Dimes, Standing Liberty Quarters, and Liberty Walking Half Dollars
By Q. David Bowers; foreword by Roger W. Burdette
ISBN 079484314-X
Softcover, 6 x 9 inches. 320 pages. Full color. Retail $29.95.
Online at https://www.whitman.com/store/Inventory/Detail/A-Guide-Book-of-Mercury-Dimes-Standing-Liberty-Quarters-and-Liberty-Walking-Half-Dollars-1st-Edition+079484314X

Wayne Homren, Editor

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