A coin collection often starts with a coin from mother,grandfather or a nice woman one does not even know the name of.The coins history ,shape and design fascinate you and the pleasure of collecting is awakened.
When you then start to build up your own collection it is important that you determine which area you want to collect.If you collect everything you come across the collecting will easily be messy.You should limit yourself and pick one or more specific collecting areas.It is important to pick a collecting area which is of great interest and pleasure, but does not empty your bank account too fast.
You can f.ex choose between these collecting areas :
Year collection.
Most collectors starts with collecting coins from years in their own countries.Years is often split up in several epoch's and when one epoch is covered they start collecting the next epoch.
A variant of this type of collecting is collecting from personal years.For example coins from years when family and relatives was born.
Type collection.
Type collection might be a coin from each main type.Then it will be easier to collect over a large time period, while the costs will be lesser.
Nominal collection
Here you can collect on certain nominals ( coins value).One pick out what nominals to collect maybe several or just one.
King or Presidential collection.
A king or presidential collection can be built up in several ways.One can choose one or more certain kings/presidents you want to collect or try to build a collection with a coin from each of the kings/presidents.
Variation collection
It has become popular to collect variation of coins,especially coins printed with hand carved stamps.Each stamp is unique and one can have different pieces of a coin from a certain year.
Minting locations
Each country mostly has several minting locations and one can collect coins from one minting location or one coin from every minting location.(this will be a small intimate collection).
Metal collection
Coins are made of different metals and alloys.In a collection one can pick one or more metals(and alloys) to collect.Through history several pure gold collection have been made.But such a collection demands a bank account which hardly can be emptied.
Themes collection
A themes collection can be so many.Demanding of what motives one will collect.It can be royal portraits,escutcheon,Christian motives(rich selection on coins from byzants),animals,boats,cars or catchwords.The possibilities are many.
Personal variants
Maybe you have an idea for a collection.Only the imagination set limits and the choice is yours.
When the collecting area is chosen you should again choose whether to collect quality or quantity.Quality means collecting beautiful coins which never completed.Quantity means a collection of some nice and many worn coins which will be completed.
Finally: Once the choice is made,just begin collecting the coins you want to have.A good place to start is buying silver coins online.
Harald Hoel , Expert of silver coins
coinfreek.com
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