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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 13032, member: 669&quot;]Welcome to the forum, and to the hobby BDT13.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ve gotten some very good advice, but please allow me to put in a plug for world coin collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Almost 49,000 different coins are illustrated in the current edition of the Krause &amp; Mishler Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-Present, on 2,280 pages.&nbsp; Of those, only a little over 200, on 35 pages, are U.S. issues.&nbsp; There are hundreds of fantastically beautiful world coins and literally thousands with historical significance.&nbsp; The best part (unless you are a multi-state lottery winner) is that there are many high grade world coins available at a small fraction of the cost of comparable U.S. issues.&nbsp; Check your local library - it probably has a Krause, and maybe some of the volumes covering the 17th-19th Centuries as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider the two most important maxims of coin collecting to be:</p><p><br /></p><p>Buy what <b>you</b> enjoy collecting <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> , and</p><p><br /></p><p>Buy the book before the coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Also remember, it&#039;s fine to consider the potential resale value of what you collect, but if you make that the linchpin of your collecting, you&#039;re an <b>investor</b>, with all the risks and benefits that implies, not a <b>collector</b>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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