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Buy yourself a few books, read up a little and you can find out who engraved your favourite designs, then build a collection from there. Much more appealing than being told what to collect by a busin… (View Post)

I've known quite a few people who have got to say 80% complete and then given up because they couldn't fill any gaps over a period of a year or two, even if there were 100 gaps to fill. I d… (View Post)

The title of the article is clearly open to a variety of interpretations. As a contrarian, I would take issue with the first point about not spreading yourself too thin. I have gone from a collection… (View Post)

You do your homework and sit back. Sometimes it takes a while - I've been waiting nearly 20 years for one coin to resurface and another I can't find reference to for the past 112 years. Wha… (View Post)

There has always been and always will be more coins available to collect than collectors to absorb them, so there is no reason for the recent prices seen to drive away collectors. As I see it, the bi… (View Post)