Coin collecting books
There are many different ways to learn how to really take coin collecting seriously. There can be a lot of money in it as well as taking a lot of money out of it. The old saying holds true in this case, you have to spend money to make money. If y Read More... |
Coins around the World
Once you have collected coins from your country, start to locate coins from around the world. There are coins from Africa, South Africa, Australia, Austria, Japan, China, England, Peru, Spain, France and Italy to name a few. You can contact their m Read More... |
Collecting Ancient Coins
Ancient coins do exist in the world today but they are very hard to come by and they are very expensive to get. People who study the scientific nature of ancient coins or money are called Numismatists. These people study the way money was used back Read More... |
Collecting Bullion Coins
These coins are gold coins as well but the gold bullion coins are very popular with people who want to venture against inflation or a store of value. In 1967, South Africa introduced the first gold coin into their country it was called the Kruggera Read More... |
Collecting Challenge Coins
A Challenge coin is a coin that has a military emblem right on the coin. The origins of the coins have been the topic for debate for where they came from. More than one branch of service says they were the first ones to come up with the idea and ev Read More... |
Collecting Commemorative Coins
Commemorative coins are legal issue coins that are created to bring attention to a person or an event. These types of coins have three different types the first one is the regular issue coinage. These are normal everyday coins that are used for every Read More... |
Collecting Error Coins
An error coin is exactly how it sounds, they are coins that the Mint had printed in error and released them into circulation. Some times there are recalls and they get back a majority of the coins and then they are melted down. But the other coins Read More... |
Collecting Exonumia
This is a study of not coins per se but a collection of coin like objects, for example token coils and medal coins, things that are used in place of legal currency or when a commemorative coins comes out. Other coins that fall under the subject or Ex Read More... |
Collecting Gold Coins
Gold coins are the oldest form of money. They first appeared on the scene about 560 BC by the Lydian King Croesus. Soon after that the silver coins appeared and they were minted by King Pheidon of Argos in about 700 BC. Gold coins had a very long run Read More... |
Collecting Minted Coins
Minted coins are part of a collection of coins that have different mint markings, these markings are used to tell the difference between separate representations in their collection. These markings tell you also how many coins are going to be in Read More... |
Collecting United States Coins
There are some coin collectors that begin their collection by collecting coins from their home country; in this case the United States has a variety of coins to begin what could be an extensive coin collection. You want to begin with the oldest coi Read More... |
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