68th-Edition OFFICIAL RED BOOK™
Debuts With Baseball Hall of Fame Coins

The newest edition of the Guide Book of United StatesCoins (known to hobbyists as the "Red Book") debuted at theWhitman Coin and Collectibles Expo on March 27, 2014. The 68thedition, with a 2015 cover date, can now be ordered online(including at Whitman.com) and is available in bookstores andhobby shops nationwide.

The Red Book, used by collectors to identify and value theircoins, prices 7,600 entries in up to nine grades each, with morethan 32,500 valuations in total. Keeping up with the latest coinsfrom the U.S. Mint, the 68th edition has added pages in the"Quarter Dollars," "Silver and Related Dollars," "ModernCommemoratives," and "Gold Bullion" sections.

All of the Mint's circulating coins have been updated with themost recent data. The 68th edition includes 92 new coin issuesand 13 new sets, with information about the San Francisco Mint"America the Beautiful" quarters (the only circulation-strikequarters made in San Francisco since 1954), and new research ondie varieties.

The Red Book debuted at the Whitman Expo along with the U.S.Mint's latest commemorative coins: the National Baseball Hall ofFame half dollar, silver dollar, and $5 gold piece. The coins arefeatured in the book's Commemoratives chapter. The cover of the68th edition shows three classic American coins: the Buffalonickel, the Saint-Gaudens $20 gold double eagle, and the Kennedyhalf dollar. The latter coin marks its 50th year of mintage in2014.

Longtime Red Book contributors Donald H. Kagin and DavidMcCarthy, who work on the book's "Colonial Issues" and "Privateand Territorial Gold" chapters, among others, were at the WhitmanExpo. They exhibited portions of the famous $10 million SaddleRidge Hoard of 1,427 gold coins recently discovered buried ineight metal cans in California.

As in past years, collectors will benefit from the Red Book'srecent auction records provided for significant rare coins.Listed throughout the charts are more than 170 notable auctionresults. Combined with the listed retail prices, the auction datahelp advanced collectors understand the modern market forhigh-end rarities.

In addition, the appendix of the "Top 250 U.S. Coin PricesRealized at Auction" has been fully updated. Since the lastedition 13 more coins have broken the $1 million mark, for a newtotal of 65. This includes five new coins that sold for more than$2 million apiece since the 67th-edition Red Book debuted oneyear ago.

In a promising measure of the health of the hobby, the RedBook's numismatic bibliography includes 22 standard referencespublished within the past five years.

About the Guide Book of United States Coins

A Guide Book of United States Coins is the world's mostpopular annual retail price guide for U.S. coins, tokens, andother numismatic items. More than 23 million copies have beenpurchased since 1946, making it one of the best-sellingnonfiction titles in the history of U.S. publishing.

For the 68th edition, more than 140 professional coin dealers,scholars, and other numismatic experts contributed theirknowledge under the direction of Senior Editor Kenneth Bressett,Valuations Editor Jeff Garrett, and Research Editor Q. DavidBowers.

The 68th edition of the Red Book is available online and atbookstores and hobby shops nationwide. In addition to offering aLarge Print Edition and several formats of the regular edition(hardcover; spiralbound softcover; and spiralbound hardcover),Whitman Publishing is also taking pre-orders for theleather-bound Limited Edition (500 copies autographed byBressett). For more information and to order, the Whitman website is www.Whitman.com.

A Guide Book ofUnited States Coins, 68th edition
448 pages
Full color
By R.S. Yeoman; senior editor Kenneth Bressett; research editorQ. David Bowers; valuations editor Jeff Garrett
$14.95 spiralbound
$16.95 hardcover
$19.95 spiralbound hardcover
$29.95 Large Print Edition
$69.95 leather-bound Limited Edition (500 copies)