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<p>[QUOTE="Bedford, post: 1557745, member: 4917"]I make my living from coins. I worked for just about 7 years for a large coin company ,Now I have my own shop. While a collector for most of my life to some degree or another the on the job training & knowledge you gain from the others you work with would be better than a degree any day IMO.The experiance on the job of buying , selling , evaluation , grading , pricing & just plain handling tens of thousands of coins is the best way to learn the field of Numismatics & market if you want to make money at it. </p><p>If you wanted to persue a path to a degree Im sure it would not harm you in being prosperous if you were trying to make a living from coins though I'd take experiance 1st.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bedford, post: 1557745, member: 4917"]I make my living from coins. I worked for just about 7 years for a large coin company ,Now I have my own shop. While a collector for most of my life to some degree or another the on the job training & knowledge you gain from the others you work with would be better than a degree any day IMO.The experiance on the job of buying , selling , evaluation , grading , pricing & just plain handling tens of thousands of coins is the best way to learn the field of Numismatics & market if you want to make money at it. If you wanted to persue a path to a degree Im sure it would not harm you in being prosperous if you were trying to make a living from coins though I'd take experiance 1st.[/QUOTE]
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