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Articles & Books From Neil S. Berman
Discover a new hobby—or refine your existing techniques—with this practical coin collecting handbookIn Coin Collecting For Dummies, professional rare coin dealer Neil Berman delivers a hands-on and fun guide to the intriguing hobby of numismatics—also known as coin collection! You'll learn how to buy, sell, grade, value, handle, and store your coins, as well as how to decide what kind of coins you should collect and how to assemble or diversify your collection.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-28-2022
The fine and fun hobby of collecting coins has a long history and no doubt a long future as well. If you’re collecting in the here and now, though, you need info on grading services, price guides, and auction houses, not to mention helpful magazines and websites.Professional grading servicesThe two industry-recognized professional coin grading services are
Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC).
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
When you’re ready to buy or sell coins, a price guide is essential. By subscribing to NumisMedia (phone: 949-362-3786), you get weekly updates on price and availability. When you decide that you’re serious about U.S. coins, Coin Dealers Newsletter (phone: 310-515-7369) becomes a must-have as well. Most professional coin dealers and serious collectors get both.
Article / Updated 04-23-2021
Because money is a limiting factor, no matter how much of it you have, figure out how much you want to budget for your collection and then decide where to spend it. Here are some suggestions for interesting and challenging ways to collect coins:
Denomination: Try putting together a complete set of all the different denominations issued by the United States.
Article / Updated 04-23-2021
Forty years ago, your spare change might yield all kinds of things: Indian-head cents, buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty quarters, Walking Liberty half dollars, and plenty of the more modern silver coins that had been discontinued a few years earlier. These are all but gone, but recent developments have brought all kinds of people back to coin collecting, and budding numismatists are searching their spare change for treasure.
Article / Updated 11-04-2021
Unlike so many hobbies and pastimes that kids can participate in, coin collecting can last a lifetime. Your niece, the avid skateboarder, isn't going to be doing a kickflip when she's 50. And your son, who's totally into video games, isn't going to be staring at that TV screen for the next 30 years (despite what all signs point to today).
Article / Updated 11-04-2021
Throughout the years, people all around the world have experimented with a variety of items to denote value. The natives of Papua New Guinea valued the dried carcasses of the bird of paradise. The early Chinese created copper money in the shape of knives. Native Americans made and used wampum (clam shells, handmade into beads, polished, drilled, and strung on strands of leather) as a medium of exchange.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Most coin collectors read at least one trade publication to see what’s happening in the industry, who has coins or currency for sale that may interest them, who’s buying what, timely coin prices, coin show and auction schedules, and similar current information and news. The following list contains links and some info about the periodicals you’ll want to add to your reading list:
Coin Prices is published six times per year.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The more you know about coins, the more interesting and fun coin collecting is. The easiest place to look for information is on the Web. And then coin collecting is just a hop, skip, and a mouse-click from being as profitable as it is interesting. Some Web sites to start with include the following:
CoinFacts.com: CoinFacts.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Many rare and valuable coins are traded through auction houses. The auction houses in the following list are some of the most respected. Contact at least several of these places, and then go to a live coin auction and follow the excitement and action yourself!
Heritage Galleries (phone: 800-872-6467)
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