Coin Collecting Guide

There is a wide array of the variety of coins that coin collectors are interested with:

National Coins : Patriotism in coins

In most cases, national coin collectors are only interested in collecting their own country’s coins, from past to present. It is a very usual practice for national coin collectors to get a coin from each date and mint marks for each coin series. This will lead them to have a very unique variation of series, date and mint marks of coins in their country.

Error Coins : Good and Not-so-good coins

One of the up and coming of coin types that coin collectors love are the error coins. When coin productions were automated in the nineteenth century, errors in production became an obvious problem. Every error coin has their own uniqueness that makes it stands out from the rest.

The common characteristics of coin errors include the following:

• dies that are doubled
• mint marks that are mis-punched or re-punched
• over-dated
• double strikes
• coins that are “off” metal
• coins that are displaced or off center
• coins that are clipped
• one coin with different nominations both two sides

World Coins : Coins from everywhere

Collecting world coins is about gathering current coins from all the countries of the world. This usually applies for people who travels very often throughout the world, or have friends who do that.

Be prepared to spend a significant amount of money if you want to be a world coins collector. You will need to most of your money on traveling, but if you have a friend who travels a lot, then this would be a major advantage for you.

Usually, world coins collectors will collect coins of every denominations of the country. Extreme world coins collectors will try their best to collection even coins of different dates!

Historical Coins : The value from the past

These types of coins are usually the rarest and expensive. If you have huge collections of historical coins, you will make significant amount of money from it, if you are prepared to part with your coins.

Collectors of historic coins find value in mints that are from medieval or ancient times. Some of the most popular historic coins include the following :

• Byzantine
• Celtic
• Greek
• Indian
• Israelite
• Merovingian
• Ostrogothic

There are other ancient coin specialties but it really depends on the preferences of the collectors. The popular way is to collect the coins that were minted during the reign of a certain emperor or king.