Coins - Collecting

In addition to the rare coins that you may receive in the everyday change going through your hands, you can buy coins for your collection from dealers. The prices will be right if you patronize a reliable dealer. Auction sales of coins are held from time to time, especially in the larger cities. Coin holders, with coin-shaped slots, are available from dealers and book stores.

Any one of several helpful books, such as those listed later, will help to steer you in the right direction as a coin collector. Coin magazines will keep you up-to-date. The Netherlands Coin Company, Inc., of 1 West Forty-seventh Street, New York 36, N.Y., publishes a house organ called Numisma which is free to collectors. The Numismatist, published monthly in Wichita, Kansas, is worth every Indian-head penny of its $6 a year subscription rate. Another worthwhile coin magazine is The Numismatic Review, published by Coin Galleries, 123 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York 19, New York, and available to the collector at the rate of $2.50 a year. The annual price covers six issues of the magazine and two or more coin auction catalogues.

Foreign coins, though they may never pay off financially, add spice to coin collecting and are surprisingly easy to come by. Every traveler you meet will have some that he didn't get around to spending before coming home, and he will be glad to find someone who can use them. Even if coin collecting does not—although it very well can—turn into a profitable hobby, it offers a great deal of fun.

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