| Although huge amounts of money can be | | | | honoring Liberty and freedom above all. In |
| invested in collecting some types of American | | | | the same way, today's politically correct |
| coins, It is possible to have a load of fun | | | | coins which exclusively promote the |
| collecting coins without really investing | | | | politicians of the past tell of the foibles |
| much money at all. I don't have much money | | | | of our own modern USA (what subject could |
| invested in our little coin collections, | | | | possibly be more dear to our self-absorbed |
| including those that belong to my kids. In my | | | | and narcissistic federal politicians when |
| opinion it's really not necessary. We don't | | | | they are trying to decide what should appear |
| do it as an investment or anything - its | | | | on our coins than the aggrandizement of |
| really just a family activity. The kids get a | | | | politicians like themselves). |
| big kick out of it. When I was a kid, you | | | | |
| could sort through pocket change and find | | | | There are many types of coins to collect: |
| coins minted in the teens and twenties. Now | | | | error coin collecting, ancient coin |
| days you have to buy bags of wheat cents. Not | | | | collecting, international coin collecting, |
| to worry, they are fairly inexpensive. When I | | | | silver coin collecting - there are just so |
| brought the first bags of wheat backed | | | | many ways to approach it that its hard to |
| Lincoln pennies home, I didn't know if the | | | | count them all. There really is no right and |
| kids would be interested, but they dove in | | | | wrong way to collect coins, in spite of what |
| and really had fun. It was like a treasure | | | | many so called experts say. You have to |
| hunt and the blue Whitman collection folders, | | | | decide what your goal is. Do you want to have |
| like I bought for children, are almost | | | | a family hobby? Well, inexpensive wheat cents |
| exactly the same as when I was collecting | | | | are an easy way to get started. Do you want |
| coins as a kid. We have also collected and | | | | to invest significant money in coins hoping |
| sorted through old nickels, both Jefferson | | | | that they will go up in price? Investment |
| and Indian Head or buffalo nickels. I | | | | guides want you to buy the very highest |
| especially like those Buffalo nickels myself, | | | | grades of uncirculated coins, but sometimes |
| but with all the Washington "statehood" | | | | regular old circulated coins appreciate |
| quarters, there is a lot of interest in | | | | significantly in price as well (circulated |
| Washington quarters as well. | | | | means the coin has some signs of wear - and |
| | | | sometimes a lot of wear). I have certainly |
| Collecting coins that are a century or more | | | | seen the prices of the circulated buffalo |
| old gives one a special feel for the history | | | | nickels I purchase go up steeply in price |
| of our nation. You wonder about the history | | | | over the last five years. In the end, its all |
| these heavily worn coins have seen. These old | | | | up to you! I recommend that you buy the coins |
| coins also say so much about our nation, | | | | you like. |