Posts Tagged ‘Coin’

Getting the Actual Old Coin Worth Can Be Perplexing

Getting the Actual Old Coin Worth Can Be Perplexing

Old coins can be tricky to define and put values or costs on, if you do not even acknowledge what the old coin is named. Is your old coin created of silver or gold? What area is the old coin from? This will help you to appraise what your old coins are, and direct… Continue reading

How to insure your coin collecting?

How to insure your coin collecting?

Insurance is a risk-based business, sort of a bet between you and the insurance company that something will or won’t go wrong. The bet includes odds that affect the size of the bet (the premium you pay to the insurance company) and the size of the payoff (the amount the insurance company pays you after a loss)… Continue reading

How Coin Price Guide Determines the Price of Coins

How Coin Price Guide Determines the Price of Coins

Coin Price Guides are useful among collectors. In brief, coins are tiny disk shaped metal pieces of currency. Coins come in various categories currency coins which are valued as per their face value, currency coins come with an amount printed on them and the printed amount is the price of the coin.

Rare and… Continue reading

U.S. Coin Collecting and How to Use A Metal Detector to Locate Them

U.S. Coin Collecting and How to Use A Metal Detector to Locate Them

US coin collecting can be even more rewarding if you use a metal detector to find those coins. For those of us who have found coins using a metal detector, the thrill is pure excitement each time. I agree that it’s fun to walk into a coin shop and buy… Continue reading

Where can you meet other numismatists & coin collectors?

Where can you meet other numismatists & coin collectors?

The best thing you can do as a beginning collector is hook up with someone who is already involved in numismatics as a dealer or collector. A good advisor can demonstrate to you the fine points of coin collecting and show you coins that you may not otherwise see. Many old-time collectors have plenty… Continue reading

Gold coin investing: do your homework

Gold coin investing: do your homework

You might be wondering how gold coin investing can keep your wealth growing for the long-term. It does this by acting as a hedge against inflation and declining stocks, bonds and the real estate market. Investors seeking to diversify into a tangible and solid asset can benefit from gold coin investing if done carefully. Gold coin investing… Continue reading

How to Deal with a Coin Collection robbery ?

How to Deal with a Coin Collection robbery ?

Do not resist a robbery, ever. Neil has, and it’s not an experience that you want to have.

Just because you’ve been the victim of a coin robbery doesn’t mean that it’s the end of the world. You have a much better chance at recovering your coins today than you did years ago. New technologies… Continue reading

The History of Coin Collecting in the UK

The History of Coin Collecting in the UK

When it comes down to it there are really two types of coin that exist in this country. There is the coin that is legal tender (the ones we use every day) and the coin that is worthy of being collected.

Many people throughout the UK look out for a coin or two to add to… Continue reading

Why We Should Attend Coin Shows

Why We Should Attend Coin Shows

For dealers to be on top of there game, they should attend or participate in coin shows. These shows are to coin dealers what a medical symposium might be to a doctor. As a dealer, it is important that you try to attend a few of these shows in a year. This is where the latest in… Continue reading

Is a Krugerrand coin a good investment?

Is a Krugerrand coin a good investment?

The Krugerrand is one of those coins which most people, even my grandmother, have heard of and this is for good reason. For many it represents one of the best choices of gold in which to invest your hard earned money.A South African coin first minted in 1967, the intention was to lure global investment into… Continue reading