NEW COIN SURVIVAL MANUAL RELEASED AS SOFTWARE Random House's ultimate consumer protection resource for coin collectors and investors, The Coin Collector's Survival Manual®, Fifth Edition, has been released as a software program for Windows XP.
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Interactive CD-ROM features zoomable digital color images, entire book text
(Boston, March 11, 2006) The Coin Collector’s Survival Manual®, Fifth Edition, authored by Scott A. Travers and published by Random House, is now available as an interactive CD-ROM software program. The multi-media computer version, optimized for Microsoft Windows XP, features “every single word and photograph from this essential book,” according to Tom Bilotta, president of Carlisle Development, the computer software publisher. Random House Information Group granted a license to Carlisle to produce software based on the book.
“But the most extraordinary aspect, aside from bringing this landmark work to personal computer users, is the use of over 260 digital color and black & white images,” Bilotta added. The software program will allow the user to zoom in on images for close inspection of grade-sensitive areas—and to carefully examine the surfaces of coins that are counterfeit, doctored or altered.
“This is the software version of the most important book I have ever written” declared Scott A. Travers, New York City author, dealer and consumer advocate. The new Survival Manual reveals trade secrets on how to make money and avoid mistakes in the $3-billion-a-year rare coin marketplace.
Interactive features found in the software edition
•Word search, electronic index and illustration locator
•Bookmark and annotation options
•Grading service calculator
•Crack-out calculator
•Bullion calculator
•Coin viewing animations
•Coin image gallery
•Grading history timeline
The Coin Collector’s Survival Manual, Fifth Edition, CD-ROM Software is available at coin dealers, over the Internet, and through the mail. It is priced at $34.95 and attractively packaged. For more information, contact: Carlisle Development Corporation, P.O. Box 291, Carlisle, MA 01741, e-mail: Sales@CarlisleDevelopment.com, Internet: www.CarlisleDevelopment.com/CoinSurvival.php
About The Coin Collector’s Survival Manual®, Fifth Edition
(New York, Feb. 14, 2006) – Consumer advocate and former American Numismatic Association Vice President, Scott A. Travers, reveals trade secrets on how to make money and avoid mistakes in the rare coin marketplace in his new book, The Coin Collector’s Survival Manual, Fifth Edition (Random House, New York 2006).
The straight-forward book candidly examines grading controversies and the recent popularity of registry sets, playing the “crack out” game with third-party encapsulated coins, and the dangers of online auctions and coin doctoring.
“This is the most important book I have ever written. It will help thousands of people make or save money,” said Travers, president of Scott Travers Rare Coin Galleries, LLC, of New York City (www.PocketChangeLottery.com).
There are 1,200 consumer protection caveats offering readers time-tested advice on how to buy and sell coins profitably, whether it’s a valuable item found in pocket change or multi-million dollar rarities at auctions. Detailed photographs of repaired coins and coins with genuine and artificial toning give readers unprecedented side-by-side comparisons.
Illustrated with more than 260 state-of-the-art digital color and black and white images of coins, this 400-page guide packs a powerful, one-two punch for consumers. It combines a thorough update of earlier editions of The Coin Collector’s Survival Manual with another of Travers’
