Coin Collectors Guide

Following the four different rotating reverse designs issued during 2009 to represent the different stages of the life of Abraham Lincoln, one final reverse design will be issued in 2010. This time the design is expected to remain in use for the foreseeable future. The topic of the redesign will be Lincoln’s preservation of the United States of America as a single country.

The year 2009 marked the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. In line with the long running association of Lincoln and numismatics, newly designed circulating and collectible coins were issued to mark the occasion. This included one cent coins with four different designs and a commemorative silver dollar.

Have you ever purchased coins over the phone or online after watching a commercial on Television? These rare coins are frequently sold along with coin collecting folders. These coin collecting folders allow you to display the coins in your collection all in one often tri-fold folder. The folders also act as a coin collecting holder since they encase your coins in a plastic sheathe. This protects your coins from the elements or from having faded or nicked, thus increasing their value; and it also keeps them in order so that you will separate your coins by year, country or even decade or century.

Coin collecting is a hobby that will never go out of style. One of the things I fondly recall doing with my pa when I was young was looking through his collection of favorite coins that he kept in a metal tobacco tin. He would show me each coin and tell me the story behind it.

A person may buy gold coins for any number of reasons. A major reason is for investment purposes. Today’s economy is uncertain and fragile. Gold is a good safe investment and a wise way to protect your portfolio.