The Investor’s Guide to United States Coins is a modern, data-driven handbook for anyone who wants to treat rare coins as a serious asset class. Often described as a 21st-century “bible” for coin investing, it shows how collectors and investors can use empirical models—tracking price performance and investment returns—to make smarter buying and selling decisions, with the goal of outperforming traditional investments.
Building on the groundbreaking first edition from twenty years ago, this updated second edition brings the analysis fully current. Original author Neil S. Berman is joined by noted numismatist Silvano DiGenova and Dr. Jason Perry, a financial economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Together, they account for major shifts in the market: accelerating rare-coin prices, evolving trading practices, major advances in grading standards, and broader external forces that influence liquidity and value.
The book delivers an unvarnished look at today’s rare-coin marketplace and is written for both seasoned participants and newcomers. Highlights include a comprehensive price history of U.S. coinage from 1955 to the present, key-date and auction benchmarks, and a large collection of charts and graphs designed to help readers develop practical strategies—positioning rare coins as one of the notable growth opportunities of the 21st century.
