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A coin collection, featuring coins loose and in various storage mediums.
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Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender. Coins of interest to collectors include beautiful, rare, and historically significant pieces. Collectors may be interested, for example, in complete sets of a particular design or denomination, coins that were in circulation for only a brief time, or coins with errors. Coin collecting can be differentiated from numismatics, in that the latter is the systematic study of currency as a whole, though the two disciplines are closely interlinked.
Many factors determine a coin's value including grade, rarity, and popularity.[1] Commercial organizations offer grading services and will grade, authenticate, attribute, and encapsulate most coins.
^Garrett, Jeff (10 February 2023). "Pricing Hard-to-Price Coins". Coinweek. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
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scrip) other than coins and paper money. This includes "Good For" tokens, badges, counterstamped coins, elongated coins, encased coins, souvenir medallions...
those in the coin collecting community. Coins that were toned were considered tarnished which caused collectors to brighten up their coins with things like...
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that people have been collecting paper money for as long as it has been in use.[citation needed] While people began collecting paper currency more systematically...
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