Coin Talk

I got this in an email. Don’t know if it’s worthwhile but thought I’d pass it on. http://www.numismaster.com/ta/inside_numis.jsp?page=online-seminars&et_mid=512234&rid=2187913 View full post on CoinTalk - Coin Chat

All right I’m a little bored of completing folders and am looking for a new type of collection. I’m looking to maybe invest a little too. Now I have a choice between Proof Sets and Un-circulated Sets. I love the Proof because the gloss makes all of the details stand out but I also like [...]

I have been collecting the presidential dollars since 2007. I’ve either got a 250 coin mint bag, mint roll or bank roll for every single president. Where I have obtained bank rolls, the fewest number of bank rolls I have is 6. It’s now 4 years later and I’m starting to get ‘collection exhaustion’. We [...]

Adding a nice silver coin to my world crown collection, has become just plain annoyingly expensive, I don’t mind silver going up as it has, but it has added a base cost to many otherwise desirable but common coins. Any comments? View full post on CoinTalk - Coin Chat

Just wondering if anyone has this program. It looks like a decent program, it’s one of the few that I have found that seems to have a good World Coin section which is taken directly from Krause: http://www.exactchange.info/index.htm It also has, mintages, composistion, size, weight and a few other things that are automaticaly entered when [...]

Being a dental student at my school, we have learned how to make gold coins through lost wax casting of gold. I was thinking this might be a fun process to make a couple rings for my fiancee. I can’t afford gold…I’m a student. So, the next best choice is silver. I have a bunch [...]

Somehow I got on KP Numismatics Update email list. I hope it’s useful and accurate. http://numismaster.com/ta/inside_num…e=CollectCoins View full post on CoinTalk - Coin Chat

Here is the deal. I had started out with trying to collect on series of coins at a time, like all teh Kennedy proofs, Ike proofs, ect. But as I have gone on and some of teh years with silver have gone up I have been changing gears and buys whatever I can find a [...]

Hello, My name is Vance and my son and I are wanting to get into coin collecting together. He is 8 and actually came to me wanting to start this as a hobby with me. Thing is we are brand new and have nothing nor do I know where to start. I was wondering if [...]

Went to the parents’ home today. Mom gave me a couple of bags, saying she found these while cleaning out her closet. She saved the majority of coins I collected as a kid. Needless to say I had a good laugh looking though most of them. Hope you guys do too. Enjoy! The hoard…had three [...]