What are some of the different ways to collect coins?
There’s as many different ways to collect as there are collectors. Here’s some of the most popular: • Year and mint seriespick a denomination and type (say, Washington quarter dollars), and try and get every year and mint mark that has ever been made. For current type coins this is usually pretty inexpensive, and you can start with the change in your pocket; a terrific feature for kids of all ages. For some of the obsolete type coins (Walking Liberty half dollars for example), this can get pretty expensive after you acquire the more commonly available ones. Some years or mint marks may be very scarce and command quite a bit of dough. • Type setcollect one example of each type coin. For United States coins this is sometimes further subdivided into 20th Century Type Sets, etc. For example, a 20th Century Type Set of cents would have these coins: Indian head cent, Lincoln cent with wheat sheaves reverse, Lincoln cent with Lincoln memorial reverse, and some might want to include the new co
