Is Collecting by Date a Thing of the Past?
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Is the age of collecting by date or variety over? Have coins become so expensive and collecting so complex that it is inevitable that new collectors will focus solely on type coins? As a dealer who sells rare gold coins to both highly specialized date collectors and to sophisticated type collectors I think numismatics is definitely going through a change but that collecting by date remains (and will continue to be) very popular with a certain type of individual.
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7 Ways to Improve Your Collection
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Someone recently asked me a question that I thought was interesting and that merited a detailed response. To paraphrase this question, they basically asked me this: can you tell me some ways that I can improve my collection while spending little or no money?
Are there any actual ways that you can make your collection better without dropping a lot of coin (bad pun intended)? I believe that there are and here are a few that came to mind: |
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Are Early Gold Coins Overpriced ?
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A good client of mine recently asked me the question “are early gold coins overpriced?” As with most intelligent questions, I don’t think that this one has a pat answer. My feeling is that some early gold coins are poor value at current levels while others are good to very good values. Read on for my take on the current early gold market and my suggestions of where the best values are.
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Top 5 Worst Coin Investments
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Bad Coin Investments and Why You Shouldn't Collect Them
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Collecting Coins a Collectors Guide
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Coin collecting is something that takes time to learn. The most important thing to remember is that you are doing it for the right reason - if it is a passion, then it is something worth pursuing.
Collecting just for profit may work but it usually is not enough in the long run. A person really has to think about this since many people who have tried it for that reason have lost focus and failed.
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Celtic and Anglo Saxon Coinage
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The Belgae introduced coins to Britain in the second century BC, but they were used for religious offerings, tribute payments, or even hoarded as evidence of wealth, rather than for trade. The Celtic economy was largely conducted by barter, and Caesar noted that iron ingots substituted for money in Britain.
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Too Good to be True
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The high only lasted a couple of hours.
It took only that long to find out that my friend’s 1795 Flowing Hair 3-leaf dollar in MS-55 (my estimate) that had been left to her by her greatgrandfather was, sadly, only a good counterfeit. |
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Coin Collecting
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It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when coin collecting started, but inventories of imperial coin collections have been found dating back to the Middle Ages. As one of the oldest recorded collecting hobbies, coin collecting has earned the nickname “the King of Hobbies”. |
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Uncirculated How to invest in coins
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Ancient coins can fetch tens of thousands of pounds each at auction – we tell you how to invest in them and make the most out of your pennies |
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THE COIN MARKET AS WE SEE IT
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With all the turmoil in the financial markets you would think the rare coin market would be on its death bed. NOT! Without a doubt, even though we have been harping the coin market has been going through what we will call a “quality correction” of 10-20% (probably more like 30-40% now), nice, fresh, original, and truly rare coins have NOT decreased in value by any noticeable measure. |
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