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Best Coins for Beginners
The best coins for beginners are really dependant on the financial resources of the new collector. Myself, I started with pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. You can collect all of the different years and mint locations for each year at a relatively low cost. Fortunately when I started Coin Collecting, I was encouraged by my [...]
Coin Collecting for Beginners – How To Get Started in Coin Collecting
Coin Collecting for beginners, how to get started in coin collecting can be relatively easy, just start keeping coins. This sounds simple but there is a purpose. The US Mint has made is easy in the past few years with making quarters with each state represented on a coin. Every state has already been minted [...]
2010 Gold Panda Coins
The 2010 Gold Panda Coins are now on sale. The denominations are the same since the change in 2001. These are 20, 50, 100, 200, and 500 Yuan. These represent 1/20th ounce, 1/10th ounce, ¼ ounce, ½ ounce, and the one ounce, respectively. Just like the American gold Buffalo, this coin is 99.99% pure gold. [...]
Tips For Making Money Coin Collecting
There are many types of coin collectors, but a lot of people enjoy making money from their coin purchases. There is money to be made from your coin collection, but there is a lot of stuff you need to know before you start buying rare coins. I hope that these tips for making money coin [...]
Collecting Morgan Silver Dollars
One of the more collectible United States silver coins are the Morgan Silver Dollars. Minted from 1878 to 1904 and again in 1921, the Morgan silver dollars are named after their designer, George T. Morgan and these coins are .900 fine silver. The coins came about after the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada put a [...]
Collecting Kennedy Half Dollars
For many beginners in the coin collecting realm, the Kennedy Half Dollars are the ideal starting point for their new hobby. For many others, the Kennedy fifty cent piece is not only a collectible for value, but also for sentimental collection. Whatever your reason for collectig Kennedy half dollars, we here at Coin Blogger know [...]
Coin Dealers Online – Find A Good One and Stick With Him
Today I read a great story in the Daily North Western about great coin dealers online. I loved the quote from the coin dealer of North Shore Coins. The quote was, “Coins will come and coins will go, but customers are forever.” I love this quote. Too many coin dealers both online and offline look [...]
Full Step Jefferson Nickel Guide
I have written extensively here on the Coin Blog about collecting full step Jefferson nickels. Today, I wanted to point out an unbelievable full step Jefferson nickel guide on CoinTalk. Lehigh96 from the CoinTalk forum has written a great guide to help us to understand what is a 6FS Jefferson nickel and a 5FS Jefferson [...]
Jefferson Wartime Nickels
One of my favorite coins to collect are Jefferson Wartime Nickels. Beginning in 1942, the United States Mint began producing new new alloy of silver nickels. After the Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States went to war and metal became a precious commodity for wartime supplies like ammunition, guns and other military equipment. These [...]
Coin Collecting Guide – Develop Your Coin Buying Routine
Developing a coin buying routine is very important if you want to consistently buy quality coins. This coin collecting guide will focus on one of the most important aspects of coin collecting – picking the right coins to buy. In order to consistently choose the best coins to buy you need to develop your coin [...]
