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Products for serious collectors of Canadian Currency!

For 2011, Brookstone Publishing updated price guides within the Canadian Currency Collection™ product suite. Each of them provide you with the most comprehensive information available to collectors. Other products are also available to meet the needs of collectors.

Price Guide for Coins

Inside the Price Guide for Canadian Coins PROFESSIONAL Edition, you will find:

● Pricing for over 6,800 Business Denomination Coins and Sets (including varieties).
● Listings of replica coins, counterfeit coins and counterstamped coins.
● Pricing for nearly 1,700 Collector Coins and Sets.
● Pricing for Bullion Coins and Gold Collector Coins.
● Pricing for over 700 Provincial Coins and Sets dated 1823 to 1947.
● Pricing for over 1200 Tokens from 1670 to 1893.
● Pricing for High Grade coins in MS, PL and SP condition; with grades up to MS66, PL68 and SP68.
● Over 10,600 listings using over 101,600 price points.
● A chapter called ‘Finding Value’ – designed to help collectors find value in the market place.
● A section called ‘Value Comparison Tables’ – designed to compare the value of coins with each other.
● A new section listing the change in coin prices from the previous issue of this guide to the current issue.
● A new appendix to quickly identify tokens and their Breton Numbers.
● Basics on coin collecting and grading, including obverse images.

Price Guide for Coins

Inside the Price Guide for Canadian Coins BASIC Edition, you will find:

● Pricing for over 6,800 Business Denomination Coins and Sets.
● Pricings for hundreds of varieties not found in any other guides.
● Listings of replica coins, counterfeit coins and counterstamped coins.
● Pricing for nearly 1,700 Collector Coins and Sets.
● Pricing for Bullion Coins and Gold Collector Coins.
● Pricing for over 700 Provincial Coins and Sets dated from 1823 to 1947.
● Over 9,200 items listed using over 43,000 price points.
● Basics on coin collecting and grading, including obverse images.

5 Cents Reference - Part I

Inside the Illustrated Reference Guide for 5 Cents Coins of Canada - Part I, you will find:

•   406 different coin listings with images for 346 of them. This includes .
•   Regular Business Issue, Variety, Pattern, Replica, Counterfeit, Countermarked and Altered coins included.
•   Nearly 700 images to help identify the listed coins.
•   Over 60 obverse images to assist with grading.
•   Brief histories of the monarch found on the obverses.
•   Images to easily identify the many different obverses and reverses found from 1858 to 1910.

1894 Breton Reprint

A few highlights of the contents of this well known 240 page book from 1894:

•   Over 1000 obverse and reverse engravings of coins and tokens used in Canada from 1670 to 1894.
•   The Breton numbering system of 501 to 1013 still used by collectors and dealers today.
•   The rarity scale used to set coin valuations in the late 1800’s.
•   Prices paid for coins such as the Specimen Pattern $20 gold piece now worth thousands.
•   Biographies and insight into some of the prominent collectors of the period.
•   Engravings of coins once worth only face value, but today regularly trade for thousands of dollars.
•   Numerous commentaries on the origination of many coins, mintage, rarity and so on.
•   Limited engravings on early paper notes.
•   Insight into the collector world of the late 19th century in Canada.

Inventory Management Software

Some of the main features of the 2007 issue of this product are:

• A total of 82 spreadsheets for managing your inventory, looking up prices, and other functions!
• 53 different inventory spreadsheets for:
     -   1¢ to $2 Business coins (1858-2007)
     -   ½ Penny to $2 Provincial coins (1823-1947)
     -   High Grade coins from 1¢, to $1 (1858-1980)
     -   Collector Coins, Sets, Gold and ML Coins (1858-2007)
     -   Tokens (1670-1893)
     -   Bank of Canada Banknotes (Series I-VI)
     -   Government Notes (Federal, Provincial and Municipal)
•   Prices for over 9,700 different coins, sets, and banknote items!
•   Nearly 157,000 price points using 54 different coin grades and 18 different banknote grades.
•   A coin grading assistant with over 375 obverse images of copper, silver & nickel coins.
•   User settable foreign currency and bullion rates, and four different calculators to determine values.
•   Updated 330 page Introduction to Currency Collecting and Software User Guide.

Notes Price Guide

Highlights of this hard copy Price Guide for Notes are:

•   Pricing for Bank of Canada Notes for Series I-VI.
•   Pricing for Government notes – Federal (Dominion of Canada), Provincial and Municipal issues from 1820.
•   Pricing for the notes issued by nearly 150 different Chartered Bank, from 1817 to 1943.
•   Pricing for nearly 8,000 different items.
•   Pricing for up to 15 specially numbered Bank of Canada notes (Radar, Ladder, etc.).
•   Over 48,000 price points in total.
• The most up to date pricing available for Notes today.
• Basics on banknote collecting.
• 240 pages of the most comprehensive single source price reference for notes available in the market.

Find out more about each of these exciting products by clicking on the links Software and Books found at the top of this page, or directly on the images of any of the products you want to know more about.