Collector or Investor?
My original coin collection So I am relatively new to the coin world. My husband is a dealer and is more knowledgeable than I will ever be and so looks at coins in an entirely different way than I do. When we were dating, I proudly pulled out my collection of coins that I had stowed away in an old check box to show him the coins that I had been saving my entire life. Mind you, I have never been a serious collector. Hence, my life collection fit inside an old checkbox. My collection consisted of some $2 bills, a $5 silver certificate, various foreign money, wheat pennies, Sacajawea and other dollars, a couple of coins that I’m pretty sure I put on a railroad track, some bicentennial half dollars, and my most favorite: bicentennial quarters and a $1 bill that my son folded to look like a bow tie and gave me for my birthday!! I must say that my husband, who has been in the coin business for over 40 years, was not impressed in the least. He wasn’t trying to