How to Start a Coin Collection

Starting a coin collection

Starting a coin collection is fun and easy. Anyone can start a coin collection with very little time and money. Now is a great time to start with so many changes in our currency and so many new coins coming out all the time even is modern collection of coins can be a fun and exciting challenge.

A good idea to starting a coin collection is to start with the easy coins to get. Start by collecting pocket change. It can be whatever you like, maybe you want to collect coins that only have a certain year like your birthday, or maybe you like shiny new coins so only save ones that are shiny and new or what we call uncirculated in the numismatic community (numismatic is someone who collects coins). A good place to start right now is the state quarter series you can collect all of them or just a certain state. Maybe you will want to collect ones that have state outlines or ones that have animals many collectors have specific themes such as coins with animals on them or coins about sports.

The exciting part to collecting pocket change is that it is the easiest treasure hunt you can have. When you do find the coin you want it's always exciting. It is also inexpensive and you are likely to find many coins when you start.

Once you have started a collection you can start to delve into other areas of collecting. Some of the easier areas to get involved in are collecting U.S. coins. You can start to collect coins that are older or no longer made. One such coin that is still sometimes found in change is the wheat penny that is the penny with Lincoln on the obverse (front of coin) but instead of the Lincoln Memorial it has two pieces of wheat on the reverse (back of coin). This coin can be found in pocket change still on occasion, and it is also inexpensive to get buy today often selling for only about .10 for a coin from the 1950's and it offers some interesting variations like the 1943 steel penny which can often be bought for about a dime but is the only U.S. coin to be made of steel and was only made for one year in WWII.