Topic: Coin Collecting

For many coin collectors the output from the United States mint in the nineteenth century has provided many coins of beauty and value to be owned. Three of the nineteenth century US mints are still producing coins today, these being Philadelphia, Denver ...

Where to sell silver coins

Coin collectors sometims find it?necessary to sell off some of their coin?collection, either to get rid of some duplicates or to raise some needed cash for future purchases. Many people though are worried about going to a dealer fearful that they will ...
One of the bullion coins currently being produced by the US Mint is the Silver Eagle Dollar. At face value of a dollar, it may not seem that the coin is worth faking, but the bullion value of each coin is nearer ...
Lego Batman is a Warner Brothers game and is an addition to their Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones games. The only audio is the Batman music which is played on the options screen of the Batman DVD. From the Bat ...
Saving with a money box or a piggy bank is a good way to put aside some money. The key to using a money box or piggy bank to increase your savings is to do something with the money saved once you ...
Also known as the Holt Half, the Franklin half Dollar is a basic design of Benjamin Franklin on the obverse and the Liberty Bell on the reverse. Franklin also had a lifelong connection with Philadelphia resulting in the Liberty Bell being the ...

How to photograph rare coins

As any amateur photographer knows, it can be difficult to get a good close-up picture of any small object. This can be especially frustrating in the rare coin world, where getting a good close-up picture of a coin is of tantamount importance ...
A large number of coin collectors will never even come across a coin dealer, after all a large portion of the coin collecting hobby can be done from the comfort of their own home. The use of internet auction sites , such ...
The idea of plain edge dollar hunting has been reinvigorated with the current release of the Presidential Dollar Series of coins within America. Between 1933 and 2007 all dollar coins produced were plain edged, meaning that there was no inscription engraved on ...

How to rainbow tone coins

It is a matter of choice for a collector as to whether they collect mint perfect coins, dirty coins or those that show obvious toning. This form of rainbow toning though is often easier to discern as the results are often too ...