By Amanda Hash | On May 2, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated 
Crazy as it sounds, you may end up paying less interest in a personal loan you use to avoid delinquencies than the actual interest rates you would have to face for late payments, for paying the minimum of your credit card balance or for missing the payment at all, since on top of the overcharge you would have your credit score dropping down...
By Amanda Hash | On May 2, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
When covered by debt there are two things to do: STOP it and REVERT it. While reverting it will take you to sit down and carefully elaborate a plan, stopping it is immediate and easy to accomplish on a daily basis.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
Since a mintmark is an identifier for each coin and will tell you where your coin was minted, it stands to reason that you will find the mintmark somewhere on the coin itself.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
In the beginning there was only one Mint and no Mintmarks. Not one Mint for all the countries, but one Mint for each country.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
These are the somewhat akin to the plastic flip pockets except there is no plastic and it’s not a pocket of any sort. Okay, so in reality it’s only the size which makes it resemble a pocket flip, in every other way a a coin 2” x 2” (pronounced two by two) holder is in a class of its own.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
As an alternative form of storage or display you can always keep your coins in plastic coin tubes. No long-term use of PVC based products should be your goal here, although short-term use is acceptable.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
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.
By Muna Wa Wanjiru | On March 22, 2008 | In Personal-Finance | Rated
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.
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.
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