3941. How to Care for Your Coins by Use of Coin Albums
June 07, 2007
coin albums are by and away my favorite form of displaying coins and I have many of them stacked on the rack. Actually what I do is place coin albums one by in clear boxes until the box gets filled then I move on to the next one. That way, not only are my coins kept safe, but my coin al...
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3942. What Are Coin Cloth Bags?
June 07, 2007
coin cloth bags were what came along to replace the wooden kegs and such that were used to hold coins. This wasn’t something that happened in the recent past but somewhere in the mists of time of the nineteenth century. coin cloth bags mode of storage and display shouldn’t be used for a...
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3943. How to Store and Display your Coin Collection
June 07, 2007
A very large and fun part of collecting coins is displaying them, and sharing this display with others to appropriately admire. The pleasure you get when you can proudly show off your collection to another person – be it another collector or not – is immense. There are many other reasons of course ...
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3944. Here Are Some Tips on What to do With Your Coins
June 07, 2007
The list of things to do is pitifully poor in comparison with the list of things you shouldn’t do, but it’s still an important one, so read on. Just like the main thing you shouldn’t do with your coins is clean them, the first thing that you should do when you get your coins is to find a good home ...
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3945. A Lesson on How to Handle Your Coins
June 07, 2007
One thing that people seem to do with their coins is to overly handle them. No matter how clean you think your hands are if you touch the coin on its face you’ll be leaving fingerprints on it. There are also natural oils on your hands which you won’t even notice in the general course of things but ...
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3946. Why You Should Resist the Urge to Clean Your Coins
June 07, 2007
The first thing on your list of what not to do is the golden rule of coin collecting: Don’t clean your coins. That’s coin-homicide and can mean a significant reduction in value of the coin’s mint state. Knowledgeable buyers certainly won’t look twice at a coin that’s been cleaned so avo...
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3947. How Do You Go About Caring for Coins?
June 07, 2007
There are a great many things you can do wrong in the caring for coins, and I have to say that at the tender age of eight I did just about everything wrong that you can imagine. Luckily for me I didn’t have any old or rare coins in my possession otherwise for certain they would have been ruined bey...
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3948. Are Your Coin Dealers Able to Recompense You?
June 07, 2007
You buy a coin from your coin dealers and you take it back home. This has been done in good faith, and now you send it off to be graded. To your dismay you find that what you bought wasn’t in fact the real thing at all but a really good fake. Don’t immediately take this to mean that the...
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3949. Will Your Coin Dealers Give You an After-Sales Service?
June 07, 2007
As with anything, coin dealers aren’t required to give you any after sales service. It’s just in their best interests if they do. And the savvy salesman knows this and will act accordingly. What do I mean by after sales service? Well to start with, I always like a pleasant smile to acco...
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3950. Are You a Coin Broker or a Coin Dealer?
June 07, 2007
You might wonder why the issue of a coin broker should impact you in any way, and you might be right. Not everyone will mind if the coins they’re being sold aren’t part of the dealer’s inventory. The only problem I find with this is that although the dealer might be fair, the collector ...
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