All posts tagged Silver Coins

How to Become a Coin Collector

Numismatics is a flourishing hobby.  It has been called the “hobby of Kings,” and for good reason.  Currency collecting has been in existence for thousands of years, in all different forms.  It’s not unusual for a large historical collection of coins to be owned and cared for by royalty or governments, for posterity purposes.  It’s [...]

Collectors And Bullion Silver Coins

One of the classic marketing techniques is to take something that is not primarily intended as a collector’s object and to call it collectible. Unfortunately, this technique has made some of the literature about silver coins, gold coins, precious metal bullion and other tangible forms of metals rather specious. There are actually different types of [...]

Coin Collecting Reaches Heights During Bad Economic Times

There are so many different types of coins out there, which is one of the reasons why coin collecting can be such a popular hobby, having lasted for so many years and showing no signs of decreasing in popularity, quite the opposite in fact as many new coin collectors have started their own collections.  One [...]

Profiting From Rare Silver Coins

Dollar bills, stocks, and bonds are all investments. Yet, they are not tangible assets. We like to think the dollar bill is a concrete asset, but it really isn’t. The dollar bill is printed money. It used to be backed by gold, but President Nixon took the United States off of the gold standard in [...]

The Silver Eagle Has Record Sales

Are you an avid silver coin collector? Then you probably know that the silver Eagle has been having a record year for sales. If you aren’t really a big collector or investor, then you may be surprised to find that information out. Since there is such a high interest in collecting silver coins, maybe you’ll [...]