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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 670080, member: 112&quot;]Pretty much the same thing collectors collect today - the coins of yesterday and the coins of today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin collecting has been around pretty much as long as coins have been around - since 1500BC-700BC. The reason it is called the Hobby of Kings is when it began only Kings could afford to be coin collectors. But eventually it got to the point that the nobility got into the act as well and everybody competed with each other to see who coould amass the nicest collection. People think that today&#039;s coin registries are something new. The only thing new about is that in todays world they do it on the internet. But the idea is definitely not new. Kings were competing with each other a thousand years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many are also suprised to learn that one of the first books ever printed, not long after Guttenberg inventing the printing press, was a book on coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So coin collecting is nothing new. There were a few collectors before then, but it began to gain popularity in the US in the 1850&#039;s. But it had already been going on for 2000 years before that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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