Coin Collecting

Coin collecting is the collecting or trading of coins or other forms of legally minted currency. Frequently collected coins include those that were in circulation for only a brief time, coins minted with errors, or especially beautiful or historically interesting pieces.

People have been making coins for millennia and in lots of different cultures. Ancient coins are made of different materials and using different processes than modern coins. Ancient coins, just like modern ones, reflect the culture they came from, and learning about these coins teaches you a lot of pretty cool stuff about the history of that culture.