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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 397, member: 57463&quot;]First, there are the newspapers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, there are the magazines.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, there are club journals.</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------</p><p>The newspaper publisher are Krause (Numismatic News, World Coin News, Bank Note Reporter) and Amos (Coin World).</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin World has the largest circulation, over 90,000 and close to 100,000.&nbsp; The Krause papers do not publish their figures but tend be about one-half to one-third of this or less.&nbsp; (Banknote Reporter has a very small circulation because so few people collect paper, compared to the number of people in America collecting American coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The newspapers might be found on a newsstand -- and if so, consider yourself lucky -- and often at coin stores -- but are usually by subscription.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Coin World tends to be written by a professional staff of journalists.&nbsp; They perform regular research for their feature articles (The Amazing 1817 Half Cent...&nbsp; Birds of a Feather: Eagles on Coins... )&nbsp; Coin World writes about coins first (including paper money, of course) and then Clubs, and then people last.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatic News gets more collector articles.&nbsp; Their staff writes more about People and less about material, generally.</p><p><br /></p><p>-----------------</p><p><br /></p><p>Krause publishes Coins Magazine.&nbsp; There are also CoinAge and Coin Prices.&nbsp; These appear on the newstands. And are available by subscription, but are seldom sold at coin stores.</p><p><br /></p><p>---------------</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a special interest, such as Buffalo Nickels or Bust Half Dollars, there is a club for you.&nbsp; Clubs are the primary source of insider information for knowing more as a collector than the general dealers do.&nbsp; If you join a club, start buying all those back issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Seated Liberty Collectors have assembled several books of &quot;best of&quot; articles from their magazine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regional clubs such as Michigan State, Central States, etc., also publish quarterlies of a more general and less detailed nature, though sometimes they have really great articles.&nbsp; The Georgia Numismatic Association wins awards for their newsletter and I proud to be a writer for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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