If your young and or don't have a lot of money you can still get into coin collecting all you have to do is have a lot of patience and pick up and look at any change you might come across cause eventually you will find something worth keeping cause that's how I got started and the first coin I ever found was a 1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar.
welcome to CT Zako. you might try coin roll searching. you might find some coin books at your library and study how to grade coins. most coin shops sell cheap coins. are you into world coins ? I could send you some cheap coins for free to get you started.
That's how most of us started. When I was a kid, you could still find silver dimes and quarters in change, and an occasional buffalo nickel and IHC. My brother and I had a few Whitman albums we worked on. I still have fun searching for state quarters with my daughter, who's filling up an album.
Thank you for the offer but I already have a nice collection started cause I've been collecting ever since 1995 I was just trying to give the younger coin collectors some advice on how to get started.
I began collecting in the late 90s as a young kid. I started with world coins and wheat cents. I worked my way up through [modern] nickels, dimes, etc. I still have a very modest collection with a small budget, but I still absolutely love getting a bag of world coins and sorting them. I would recommend the same advice as spirityoda. [In my opinion] younger collectors tend to go for quantity vs quality. As we get older and more mature (still working on that) they start to appreciate quality and focus their collecting efforts. My efforts are a US post-colonial type set at least VF but shooting for XF+. Perhaps when I mature a little more I'll go for something like VAM collecting.
