QuickTips Index
How to Find a Local Coin Dealer
When you want to find a coin dealer, you probably shouldn't go to the Yellow Pages first, because there are many people listed there who are really just pawn brokers, junk bullion buyers, and other non-experts. This Quick Tip page will show you exactly how to find a local, Certified coin dealer near your location.
How Do I Start a Coin Collection for My Children?
Many parents and grandparents would like to start a coin collection for their children, but they don't know what to collect. Learn how to start an investment collection, and what coins you should buy.
Why Is it Important to Use a PNG Coin Dealer?
Learn what the PNG (Professional Numismatists Guild) is and why it is important to use dealers who subscribe to the PNG code of ethics.
Lincoln Memorial Penny Die Varieties
The commonly recognized die variety types for the Lincoln Memorial Cent series, including those noted in the Red Book, are listed on this page.
How to Handle Coins Properly
Learning how to handle your coins properly is an important first step to protecting your coins from damage. This article explains how to handle your coins, hold your coins, and what to do to avoid damaging your coins when you examine them.
The Lincoln Commemorative Dollar Coin
The Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Dollar is a silver dollar coin being issued by the U.S. Mint in 2009. Learn why this Lincoln coin was issued, who the profits from the sales benefit, what the Lincoln Commemorative coin is all about, and whether this coin is a good buy or not.
Top 5 Worst Coin Investments
This article contains my personal list of "do not buy" coin types. I am reluctant to tell anybody else what they should invest in, since nobody can predict where the market will go, but I am willing to share my own personal 30 years' worth of experience in what I personally do not collect...and why.
Die Variety News - An Outstanding Free Magazine About Coin Die Varieties
Die Variety News (DVN) is a bimonthly magazine published by Billy Crawford. DVN features many of the most recently found die varieties and minting error coins, plus has features about older coin types and other topics of interest to people who collect die varieties.
PCGS Founder David Hall's Coin Buying Advice for 2009
PCGS founder David Hall offers some advice for smart coin buying in the depressed economy, such as that we are experiencing in 2009. Learn what coins he says you should buy for maximum upside potential with minimal risk.
Heritage Magazine
Heritage Auction Galleries publishes a free high-quality, glossy printed magazine about collectibles, including coins and other numismatic items. Find out how to get your free subscription.
CoinNetwork.com - Social Network for Coin Collectors
CoinNetwork.com is a social networking site for coin collectors, sort of a "MySpace" for the numismatic set. Learn about this great Web resource and what the features of this community are.
What are NORFED Liberty Dollar Coins?
Silver Liberty Dollars are being circulated by an organization called NORFED (National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code.) These silver dollar coins, and a $500 gold dollar coin are not legal tender coinage issued by the U.S. Mint. Learn more about these NORFED Liberty Dollars.
TrailDies.com - Die Trails and Wavy Steps
Traildies.com is a Web site devoted to the study of die trails, wavy steps, and similar phenomena on coins. Learn about this fascinating die variety type and the Web site that catalogs it.
Buffalo Nickel Key Date Coins
The key date coins in the Buffalo Nickel series are given here.
Coin Trading
Trading coins with people in other countries is a great way to build a world coin collection easily and inexpensively. Coin traders exchange coins via the mail by agreeing in advance on what coins to trade. This article shows you how to get started in the hobby of coin trading around the world.
Mint Error News Magazine
Mint Error News Magazine is published quarterly by Mike Byers. The magaxine, which is free on the Web, features major error coins. Mint Error News includes generous photos, an error coin price guide, articles and information related to mint errors, and plenty more.
Mike Byers - Publisher of Mint Error News Magazine
Mike Byers is one of the world's leading authorities on Mint Error coins, and the publisher of Mint Error News Magazine. He has more than thirty years experience with error coins, and has sold some of the most mind-boggling and stupendous major coin minting errors collectors have ever seen. Learn more about Mike Byers and his stock-in-trade.
Did Annie Oakley Really Shoot This Coin?
Annie Oakley was a famous sharpshooter who traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. She was able to shoot a hole through coins thrown into the air, as well as perform numerous other sharpshooting stunts. But did Annie Oakley really shoot the coin this article is about? Follow along in this lesson in numismatic forensics.
Coinlink.com
Coinlink.com, founded in 1995, has evolved into one of the most comprehensive coin news and reference sites on the Web. The site makes my list because of its outstanding news aggregator, which is a cross between a news feed and a hundred-author blog. Coinlink is a true labor of love by longtime collector Scott Purvis.
Numismaster.com
Numismaster.com was founded by Krause Publication, the Standard Catalog of World Coins people. They put the whole catalog online, along with coin collection management software, and added in some news and blogs. It's a very useful coin collecting resource; too bad it's not free...
Coinflation.com - The Site About Coin Inflation
Coinflation.com tracks the intrinsic, or base metal, value of circulating coins. If you wonder what the melt value of the silver in your quarters or silver dollars is worth, or the copper value of pennies and nickels, Coinflation has them all listed, tied to current spot prices. The site also carries an interesting news feed relating to coins and coin metal values.
Wildwinds.com for Ancient Coins
The Wildwinds database of ancient coins was begun by ancient coin dealer and collector Dave Surber more than a decade ago as a record of which ancient Roman and Greek coins sold for how much money. Soon, his archive of thousands of coin images and descriptions was hailed by ancient coin collectors everywhere as a wonderful cataloging and attribution resource. Now with more than 100,000 images, Wildwinds also covers Celtic and Byzantine coins, too.
Don's World Coin Gallery
Don's World Coin Gallery is a legendary Web site devoted to coins from virtually every issuing authority in the world. Don has tens of thousands of coins listed on his site, including photos, prices, a coin identification guide, and lots more for the world coin collector. The most amazing thing of all? Every single coin on the site came from Don's own collection! Learn more about Don's World Coin Gallery on this page.
SmallDollars.com
SmallDollars.com is a Web site that is entirely focused on small module U.S. Dollar Coins, such as the Presidential, Sacagawea, and Susan B. Anthony Dollars. The site has very in-depth information about the coins, artists, errors and varieties, patterns, and pretty much anything else you might want to know about the small dollars. Learn more about SmallDollars.com on this page.
Vcoins and Vauctions
Vcoins and Vauctions are sister sites run by a coin collector who got tired of the lax ethical standards on eBay. Vcoins is host to hundreds of like-minded coin dealers, and the Vauctions listings get longer every week. Although founded in ancient coins, the sites are rapidly growing in the U.S. coins and world coins areas as well. Learn more about Vcoins and Vactions on this page.