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.

When you collect anything; you expect the value of your collection to increase into the future. Just like comic book collectors or baseball card collectors depend on a price guide to tell them what their collection is worth, a coin collector relies on a coin collecting price guide too. These coin collecting guides list the several coins and their prices.

These days, you will find thousands and thousands of individuals who are having fun in coin collecting and these numbers are continually growing, which is a welcome change from the condition that existed before the year 1999. Actually since the mid sixties, coin collecting as an activity and hobby had been showing signs of decline due to the change in material from which US coins were being made.