By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated 
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.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
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 for them.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
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.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
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.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
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 beyond all hope!
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
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.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
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.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
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.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
This I feel, is a must for any dealer to be on the top of his game. Going for coin shows and auctions will help to keep the dealer abreast of what’s going on in the coin world.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
Something that you'll want to look into, is whether the community of coin collectors respects your coin dealer and respects his establishment. If the coin dealer isn’t well received by his peers and if he’s got a bad reputation then you might want to stay away from them.
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