This indispensable and comprehensive price guide received a Year 2000 Numismatic Literary Guild Award for Book of the Year in a specialized category. With the publication and distribution of this book, Mike Fuljenz sparked a surge in popularity for these historic coins.
Award winning author, numismatist, and businessman, Mike Fuljenz has been a nationally recognized voice in the numismatic world for many years. His books, essays, and commentaries have been read by the vast majority of coin collectors, investors, and coin aficionados. His list of published topics range from works on gold coin collector's favorites, investment strategies, coin fraud cases, safeguarding precious metals, gold lawsuits, coin grading and more. These nationally published works influence coin collectors and investors nation wide. Mike Fuljenz began writing by being the editor, with his lawyer father, of the newsletter for the Southwest Louisiana Coin Club. He then was chosen to author a column called "Mike's Musings" for Numismatic News, a leading hobby publication. In the 1980's he authored a coin market analysis column for the American Numismatic Association's Magazine, The Numismatist. In the early 1990's he wrote a precious metals column for the Houston Post. Mr. Fuljenz has had articles published in the Coin Dealer Newsletter, Coinage Magazine and The Numismatist to name a few. He has been interviewed in Coin World, Numismatic News, Coinage and many investment newsletters. He has been quoted in the New York Times and USA Today. He has contributed to leading price guides like the Redbook, Bluebook, Insider's Guide and Coin Dealer Newsletter. UCB's President has published four books on gold coins covering Type II and Type III $20 Liberties as well as $2 ½ and $10 Indian Gold Coins. Three of these books won Numismatic Literary Guild Awards. Universal's newsletter Investor's Profit Advisory by Mike Fuljenz goes out to tens of thousands of customers quarterly and has been awarded eleven NLG awards.