Tag: professional numismatic guide

  • What are mint error coins?

    What Are Mint-Made Error Coins and Why Are They Valuable Mint-made error coins are coins with mistakes that occur during their production at the mint. As factories, mints rely on complex machinery and human oversight, so equipment deterioration, accidents, or even personnel interventions can lead to improperly minted coins. Although error definitions are established, new…

  • ☆How to start collecting old coins?

    Coin collecting is one of the best indoor hobbies that can be fun as well as informational. The process of coin collection is so simple that you can even start right now. If you are about to buy old coins, don’t expect them to be of poor condition as the vendors polish the coins to…

  • The quality of gold coins.

    All too often, buyers of investment gold tend to forget the quality of the coins they are buying, until they come to sell them, when they are greeted with an unpleasant surprise. In reality, when you sell gold coins they are evaluated as numismatic objects. Saying “it’s a Liberty Double Eagle so I can sell…

  • Sheldon Scale- UK Grading.

    Here I have partially reproduced a table, which shows the comparison between the Sheldon Scale and current UK Grading Standards, as printed on the book “The Standard Guide to Grading British Coins” by Derek Francis Allen, available from Rotographic. Coins above 64 in the Sheldon Scale are usually termed Select, Choice or Gem Uncirculated in…