Coin collecting

They have yet to learn the value of some of these coins! Listed below are 12 examples of pennies you should collect:

There are at least 25 rare quarters that you should be looking to place into your coin collection, including a few Washington quarters worth a bundle.

Once your coin collection will start feeling larger you will certainly need to have somewhere to store them without a risk of causing any damage…

Welcome to minterrornews.com, bringing the latest mint error news and information to the collector. This is our third year bringing you both a print magazine and an on-line PDF magazine filled with articles, features and discoveries of major mint errors (striking errors) from the United States and around the World. Minterrornews.com has become one of the most popular and informative Internet resources for mint errors and is read by thousands of dealers and collectors. Two major…

What to do with coin collection? Do you sell it? Do you keep it in a safe deposit box or keep adding to it? That’s the question.

Rare Star Note -Only 250K Printed- 03215340* 2013.

In the United States, our smallest circulating coin is the dime (10 cents). Its diameter is 18mm (a little less than 3/4 of an inch), which is only 1mm smaller than the penny (1 cent). The size difference is not easily noticed, which is why the dime is a different color (silver) and has a reeded edge to make the 2 coins more distinguishable. While the dime seems pretty small, there have been plenty of modern world coins which are even smaller. The main reason to mint a small coin is, of…

Are you wondering about the difference between hoarding coins and collecting them? Check out my article to find out!

A TIKTOK account dedicated to coins explains how one of his followers found one of the most famous valuable errors on a well-known quarter. A drummer boy quarter has a very valuable error that you …

A scallop-edged coin from the Bahamas Despite what we are used to here in the United States, coins do not have to be round to be minted and spent. I've previously discussed square coins, but an even more common shape is the scalloped coin, which has a wavy edge that goes all the way around the coin. The name comes from the distinctive wavy shell of the scallop, a sea mollusk similar to a clam. This coin shape may also be referred to as wavy-edged, flower shaped, or sun shaped. Coins with 8…