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Coin Collecting for Dummies
by: Ron Guth

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 737.4075
EAN: 9780764553899
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0764553895
Label: For Dummies
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: September 29, 2001
Publisher: For Dummies
Sales Rank: 254952
Studio: For Dummies

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There’s a special comfort in collecting, in surrounding yourself with familiar objects and building a store of assets. The allure of money is especially strong. Coins represent real value. The warmth of silver and the weight of gold are irresistible to some. Coins travel throughout the world and through time itself, representing and absorbing history as they pass from one person to the next. Oh the stories coins could tell if they only had voices.

Coin-collecting is a relaxing and inexpensive (although it can be very expensive!) hobby. If you buy properly, coins can be an excellent place to park your money for a rainy day, and if you buy the right coins and the market improves, you may even be able to make a profit on your collection. In fact, numismatics (the fancy term for coin collecting) offers more riches than you may realize. This rewarding hobby also opens the door to some serious life skills, such as

History

Geography

Observational skills

Organizational skills

Analytical tools.

This book is designed to appeal to collectors at every level, from beginner to advanced. This is not a hardcore coin book; rather, Coin Collecting For Dummies is a great general reference that points you in different directions for further investigation. Perhaps the most important goal of this book is to get you excited – and to keep you excited – about coin collecting. Coin Collecting For Dummies covers all these topics and more:

Deciding what to collect

Storing your collection correctly

Finding out about repaired, restored, and recolored coins

Pricing world coins

Finding a good coin dealer

Buying at auction

Understanding that condition equals value

Exploring the wild side with rare, expensive, and esoteric coins

Selling your coins

No one needs coins, but if you decide to collect them, you certainly need this book. Coin collecting can sometimes be a confusing maze of choices sprinkled with little traps along the way. Sure, you can go it alone, but why not make your journey into numismatics a lot easier by picking the brain of an expert collector and learning from the mistakes of others.

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- Coin Collecting for Dummies
This book answered questions I didn't even know I needed to ask! Other books on the subject tend to leave you feeling like a "dummy" or that you shouldn't be a coin collector if you don't know what they're talking about. This was well written by two knowlegable authors who took the time to explain everything.

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- Everyone Learning About Coin Collecting Read This Book
This is a perfect book for the coin collector. I have read it twice. It has great information in it and will help the collector before he buys coins. Do not buy coins unless you read this first. It will help you make good choices. Learn about collecting first.

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- A Great Place to Start...
A great book for kids and adults that are just starting in coin collecting. The topics range from the simple to the advanced. Read just the chapters that interest you and you will be ahead in the coin collecting game.

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- Great book
I'm still consulting it, but it's a great book. It say what your dealers don't want, or takes you a lot of time to investigate. I'm from Mexico, and mexican coins amateur collector, i have catalogs but this book has been to useful.

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