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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 20627, member: 57463&quot;]Now that you are older and have disposable income, you can serve yourself well by resisting the temptation to buy-buy-buy.&nbsp; If you invest your time in reading (books, online, etc.) and shop carefully, you can acquire the higher grade items that are worth owning.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We <u>all </u> would like to buy beautiful coins that are undervalued!&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; You will need a large body of knowledge to find them among the areas you cited: Canada, U.S., Australia.&nbsp; These are well known, and widely collected.&nbsp; You can find bargains, but you need a large body of knowledge to do that.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Start by joining the American Numismatic Association (or the Canadian Numismatic Association, depending on where you live).&nbsp; Go to your local libraries, also.&nbsp; Different libraries will have different books, of course, and university library will often have a great array, both general and detailed.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for &quot;coins&quot; to start with, amog my favorites are Canadian Tokens.&nbsp; The Bank of Upper Canada penny and half penny tokens are unsurpassed in their class as examples of fine coining.&nbsp; Technically, however, they are not &quot;coins.&quot; The maritime provinces also have interesting tokens.&nbsp; And they tend to intersect a whole other series from Britain called &quot;Conder Tokens&quot; from the 1780s-1790s.&nbsp; Conders also display beautiful images. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Undervalued&quot; is a very relative term.&nbsp; At the last convention of the ANA, I was astounded at how expensive Conders had become.&nbsp; The Bank of Upper Canada tokens skyrocketed years ago.&nbsp; Yet, relative to all other coins, they still seem &quot;undervalued.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You will find a lot of discussion here on CoinTalk.Org.&nbsp; I also saw some good advice on the website of the Professional Numismatists Guild at <a href="http://www.pngdealers.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pngdealers.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pngdealers.com/</a> and this same general advice is available from the ANA, PCGS, and others.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>References for Canadian books come from Charlton publishers.&nbsp; References for Britain come from Seaby publishers.&nbsp; For U.S. coins, most people start with &quot;The Red Book&quot; -- <i>A Guide Book of United States Coins</i> by Yeoman and Bressett.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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