| Whether you started your coin collecting efforts | | | | my coin collecting life at a breeze. |
| at the wee age of three, or whether you | | | | What brought me to this point though, of |
| progressed to it more gradually and came to this | | | | seriously putting everything together in a concise |
| point at the ripe old age of thirty-five, you can't | | | | manner, was when Joe, a good friend was also |
| escape the fact that somehow or other you've | | | | caught by the coin collecting bug. |
| become interested in coin collecting. | | | | His greatest complaint through the whole time, |
| And if you're not interested at all, then I can only | | | | was that there was such little that could be of |
| assume that you've picked up this article for a | | | | help to the beginning of coin collecting. |
| friend and are even now reading it to while away | | | | Sure there were books galore on coin collecting, |
| the time while you should ideally be doing | | | | and my own little library attested to that, but it |
| something else. | | | | was still very difficult for the beginner to get a |
| If that's the case there's a good chance that by | | | | good grasp on what was needed without trawling |
| the end of this article you'll be firmly hooked and | | | | through a half dozen of them. |
| looking at any and all the coins you can get your | | | | Being the good friend that I am, I naturally |
| hands on. | | | | enough passed on all my notes to Joe, hoping that |
| You might not persevere at it and you might not | | | | these, along with any assistance I could give, |
| even go beyond the initial stage of looking through | | | | would be of help in demystifying some of the |
| the loose change that's fallen down the back of | | | | more confusing aspects of coin collecting. |
| your couch. But you will get around to it | | | | So that's how I started on this article, and this is |
| eventually, if only to satisfy the first burning flame | | | | where we ended up right now. With you reading |
| of curiosity that coin collecting brings. | | | | this article, which you got for your friend if you |
| And although you might not realize it, that's how | | | | remember. And with your hand in the pile of coins |
| many people start take their first step in the | | | | you emptied from the loose change cookie jar |
| direction of coin collecting. Before you start | | | | having finally given up on the couch; and me with |
| hunting in earnest between the cushions of your | | | | the satisfaction of knowing that I lured yet |
| couch though, you might first of all want to get | | | | another unsuspecting soul to the side of coin |
| at least part way through this article. | | | | collecting, even if it might only be for a brief |
| It's by no means on par with any of the articles | | | | period of time. |
| written by experts, but I did my best to gather | | | | Anyway, whether it was by accident or by |
| together all the interesting information and data | | | | design, you are now on the path of coin collecting, |
| that I could find and put it all down in one place so | | | | and hopefully this article will help you in your |
| that it's easier for you in the long term. | | | | future efforts. |
| Originally this was done solely for my own benefit. | | | | Muna wa Wanjiru is a web administrator and has |
| I had, through the ages collected all the articles | | | | been researching and reporting on internet |
| that I could get my hands on, and went through | | | | marketing for years. |