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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prime Mover, post: 1562759, member: 38783&quot;]Welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>I would take her to a coin shop (or coin show, etc) and see what she&#039;s drawn to.&nbsp; Collecting is a personal choice thing moreso than &quot;what&#039;s hot now&quot;, and people get drawn to certain coins and series for whatever reason.&nbsp; As you&#039;ll see here there&#039;s so many folks with different collecting styles and opinions, so really it&#039;s more about exposing her to what&#039;s out there, and seeing what she&#039;s interested in.&nbsp; She might like shiny proof coins, which you might be better off sticking to modern proof Mint sets that are relatively cheap and easy to obtain (see posts above).&nbsp; She might be drawn to foreigns or really ancient ones, and then that&#039;s a whole different area.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also agree with the ideas about looking at starting an album (Dansco, Whitman, etc).&nbsp; Starting out and having a well defined direction and set of goals will really help spur the collecting bug, and foster the research to find the coins needed.&nbsp; It will lead to the desire to complete a collection, and then when done, you can move onto the next set that you may have discovered while working on the first one(s).</p><p><br /></p><p>Lurk here a lot, and you&#039;ll start to get exposed to everything that&#039;s out there, as well as really good advice on where to go to find things.&nbsp; The ratio of knowledge to noise I think is very good here, and you&#039;ll learn a lot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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