Tells you everything you need to know about collecting U.S. coins, including little-known facts.

Ready... Set... Collect! If you've been itching to do something with those coins jingling in your pocket, but never knew exactly where to start, meet The Instant Coin Collector. With hundreds of color images and numismatic know-how that only comes from an expert, author Arlyn Sieber will have you walking and talking like a pro today. This fun and fast-paced book is packed with useful tips and background tidbits like: Which coins to start collecting--and...

"Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: A very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life with a nasty Grandmother. A jar of coins, each with the power to take Lillian on a journey to a different time and place...and also to grant a single wish. A small boy in a barn about to be crushed to death by a load of hay. A family, each member in mortal...