Starting A Coin Collection
The best place to start collecting would be with pennies, we will focus on the Lincoln Cent for the years 1909 through 1958, which are the Wheat Cents. There are still a number of "wheat cents" showing up in circulation, so it is possible to start a coin collection without spending a great deal of money.

Coin Collectors - Are Coins Your Passion?
The following paper is meant to be a guide for all our readers, hopefully you too. Like all coin collectors you probably love the many different coins that come your way. From these coins we can learn a little piece of what happened in history, the various activities and such. To the coin collectors the enormous amounts of different coins are valuable in their own way. They look closely at the different coins that can be added to their collections.

Coin Collection - The Art Of Numismatics
The first known coin collector was Petrarch, who lived way back in the 15th century. A century later, Hubert Goltz visited a number of coin collectors throughout Europe and estimated that were approximately 960 collections in total. Numismatics gradually became a favorite hobby of royalty. Francis I of Austria wrote about his collection of gold coins in 1756. The British Museum established one of the first coin catalogues. From this have emerged more than 100 publications devoted to coin collecting.