If you had $25 to spend each week, what would you buy?

Saving it is excellent advice.
Buying books is excellent advice.
Type Set is excellent.
Early copper is excellent advice.

But to really know what speaks to you, I'd buy a few genuine culls of everything. It wouldn't take long with $25/wk to get some real (and really cheap) coins in your hands from the local coin shop, or at a show.

If you're dying to spend money, save up $100 and know you're blowing it on stuff you're not likely to get your money out of - in other words you're losing $100 - and play with them. See what speaks to you. Give them a chance to talk.

Then buy the book and learn about it. Then save up for a nicer version of what you like. Don't spend a fortune, just a little bit. A problem-free upgrade. Then another. Maybe a low grade certified. Then, once you've done this a few times and you really know what you're looking at, go ahead and save up, maybe sell what you can and get something much, much nicer.

But remember - especially in coin collecting, a little bit of knowledge can be a very dangerous thing!

 

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let's see $100/mo - I would do a short set of ALL the burnished ASEs in NGC-MS70. Then move on to the reverse proofs. They seem to hold value well and the set looks awesome, coins placed side-by-side. I do know since this is what I am doing at the present time.

 

Save the pre-82 Lincolns...they have almost 2c of copper and have been as high as 4c per cent...eventually, they will do away with the cent like so many countries have..

you can buy silver coins and be consistently adding war nix, dimes, quarters, halves and 40% Kennedy's which will give you a learning curve and a bullion investment..

you can buy very nice, BU Washington quarters going back into the 40s, and get a couple a week for quite a while with some wise buying and begin a pretty nice collection...same with Rosies, Franklins, like the buy silver approach because it adds another venue to increase value...

 

Go to a coin show. Look at as many coins as you can and ask questions about them. Dealers that will talk to you even when you don't have any money to spend are the ones you'll want to deal with once you do. The coins you can't get out of your head after returning home (those that fit your budget) are the ones you should learn more about and start buying. You don't have to spend a lot of money to enjoy the hobby. Filling a Dansco album of inexpensive coins (Jefferson 5c, Franklin 50c) can be just as rewarding to one person as collecting 18th U.S. century copper by die marriage is to another.

 

It's also very fun to hunt through pocket change to fill an album. Seriously. Just try it. See how long it takes to get all 50 State quarters and then the territories.