How to Find Specific Coins
If you’re a coin collector or enthusiast and you’re searching for coins to add to your collection, there are many different strategies you can take to locate them. In this …
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The Bugs Bunny Franklin Half Dollar Error Coin
In previous blogs we have highlighted several different half-dollar coins, including the Kennedy half dollar and the Walking Liberty half. Today we will discuss another half-dollar error coin that is quite collectible – …
The Complexity of Pricing of Old Coins, Featuring the 1943 Copper Penny
The pricing of old coins can be a complex and nuanced task. There are many factors involved, and for the most in-demand coins, some depend very much on human error …
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What Are Some Popular Coin Categories?
Coin collectors, like any type of collector, often focus their collecting on specific coin categories or themes to make their collections more unique and personalized. If you are new to …
How Do You Tell If a Coin Is Real?
One of the questions coin dealers are frequently asked is: “How do you tell if a coin is real?” Unfortunately, there are many unscrupulous people who will take advantage of …
Coin Value: Should You Handle Your Coins?
New coin collectors have many questions when it comes to their coins. This is natural. Whether people collect coins as an investment strategy, because they enjoy the hunt for rare …
What Is Rainbow Coin Toning?
When you begin collecting coins, one of the terms you will run into over and over again when reading coin descriptions is toning. We have discussed toning and how it …
Tools for Coin Collecting – What Do You Need?
In our last blog we talked about finding valuable coins by going through your spare change. This is one way coin collectors – often young ones – get hooked on …
Looking through Your Spare Change for Coin Treasure
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there have been many shortages that consumers and businesses have experienced. One of them is a coin shortage, and it’s still continuing today. There are …
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How Does Coin Grading Work?
Anyone new to the coin collecting hobby will wonder how coin values are determined and why a particular coin may be worth more than the same coin that is, at …