| Coin collectors abound in the world in the | | | | Many of these people will look for good coins that |
| thousands. This might seem like a large enough | | | | have an interesting history behind them. These |
| figure, but when you compare a world population | | | | coins that they select will have to be in a good |
| of over six billion and climbing, it's a small figure | | | | condition. The condition that coin dealers and coin |
| indeed. But when you compare the number of | | | | experts agree as being worthy of being in a |
| United States coin collectors to that of the rest | | | | collection is where the amount of wear and tear |
| of the world you will get a far larger figure, | | | | on a coin is not too much for lots of damage to |
| relatively speaking of course. | | | | have occurred. |
| Up until very recently in fact although there were | | | | As there are some very interesting United States |
| quite a few coin collectors spread out over the | | | | coin collections that we can see, you might want |
| world the majority of them seemed to be | | | | to start your collection with one particular type of |
| concentrated in the United States. Naturally of | | | | coin. Challenge coins are a good place to start |
| course this meant that most of the coin | | | | your United States coin collection. These coins are |
| collections that came to light as the decades | | | | distinctly American in nature and origin as they are |
| passed were of United States coin collections. | | | | specifically made for the United States military |
| I'm not talking about the more expensive and | | | | services. |
| rare collections of course, those collections would | | | | Of course no United States coin collection would |
| be and are, held by a diverse number of people | | | | be complete without Lady Liberty herself. You |
| from many different parts of the world. No, what | | | | can find these coins in the American Eagle set of |
| I'm talking about are the supposedly | | | | coins. These interesting coins are made from gold, |
| not-so-noteworthy collections of the normal | | | | silver and platinum and they feature two designs |
| person. | | | | of Lady Liberty. |
| These collections although overlooked in the grand | | | | As these and many other coin collections are part |
| scheme of things for far too long, are really the | | | | of the United States coin world you can always |
| backbone of coin collections and coin collectors the | | | | expect to see the owners of these coins proudly |
| world over. And what makes the United States | | | | keeping their coins in a safe place so that future |
| coin collectors and their coin collections even more | | | | generations can marvel at history, just like we do |
| valuable is their ongoing contribution to the world | | | | now when we collect these coins. |
| of coin collecting. | | | | |