Coin Collecting

Coin Collecting
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Coin Collecting

Numismatics - Coin Collecting | Coin Collecting As investment | Coin Collecting Care | Other Coin Collecting Information

Coin collecting is one of the most interesting hobbies, which can be also very rewarding. The examination of coins is of the highest importance to the history of Art and popular customs of all peoples.

 
The purpose of this web site is to provide information about numismatics (coin collecting) and coin values to coin collectors and/or coin investors. You can find coin collecting information about coin values, Old Coin Values, US Coin Values, Rare Coin Values, Canadian Coin Values on our Coin Values page.

Numismatics - Coin Collecting


Numismatic or Coin Collecting is the science of coins under an economic, legislative, metrological and artistic point of view. It has a great importance in the whole Historical and Archaeological science; as a matter of fact into the peculiarity of a people or age the Coin holds a fundamental role: Numismatic - Coin collecting has always reflected the political, economical, artistic and social trends of the time in which it developed.

Coin Collecting As investment


There are more and more people who starting to view coin collecting as investment. You can see this phenomenon with US coins, where some specialist started to suggest to keep 10% of your investment portfolio in precious coins or rare coins!

It becomes more and more interesting for investors as constant growth in coin values bring better returns than risky stock market.

Apart of US and Canada where coin collecting is already matured. It's growing fast in Australia and Europe. In fact, Europe has a huge potential with it's fast growing economy and amazing history of coins. Some East European countries are showing very fast grow in coin's prices as economy is stabilizing and more and more people understand the potential value of these coins and trying to buy them while they are still cheap.

Please refer to our Coin Collecting as Investment page for more information about Investing in coins.

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Coin Price Guide

CoinManage
- This coin collecting software can be used as a great coin price guide reference. It has detailed information, coin values (including US coin Values, Canadian Coin Values, Gold Coin values and Silver Coin values) and images for more than 20,000 coins, as well as market prices for these coins in most of the grades.

This is by far the best coin collecting software available for coin collectors.


Coin Collecting Care

Cleaning coins

As a general rule you should not clean your coins. There are some exceptions when you can clean a coin, but make sure you know what you are doing first.

Please refer to our Cleaning coins page for more information about coins cleaning in coin collecting.

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Coin Holders

Coin collectors should not use coin holders, which contain PVC, such as soft vinyl flip. Plasticizers mixed with the PVC can damage coins over time, causing greenish "PVC damage.

Please refer to our Coin Holders page for more information about keeping coins safe.

Other Coin Collecting Information

Taking picture of the coins

Here are some tips on how to take coin pictures that may help you: picture of coin

Coin Collecting Directory

This is a directory of coin collecting websites, which we found to be useful - Coin Collecting Directory