How to Value Your Coin Collection Whether you have inherited a tin of old coins from a relative, picked up a few interesting pieces at a car boot sale, or spent years building a carefully curated collection, understanding what your coins are actually worth is one of the most important skills you can develop as … Read more
How to Avoid Fake Coins When Buying Online A Hard Lesson Learned A few years ago, a collector from Nottingham shared his story on a popular UK coin forum. He had been building a set of pre-decimal British coins for about eighteen months, and he was thrilled when he found what appeared to be a … Read more
Coin Auctions in the UK: How They Work for Beginners Walking into your first coin auction – or logging into one online for the first time – can feel like arriving at a party where everyone else seems to know exactly what they are doing. The auctioneer speaks quickly, paddles go up, and lots disappear … Read more
Royal Mint Products: Are They Worth Buying? Walk into any coin fair in the UK – whether it’s the London Coin Fair at the Holiday Inn on Bloomsbury Street or a local numismatic club meeting in a draughty village hall – and you’ll almost certainly hear a debate about Royal Mint products. Some collectors swear … Read more
How to Sell Coins in the UK: Getting a Fair Price Before You Sell Anything, Do This First A friend of mine – a retired schoolteacher from Derbyshire – inherited a biscuit tin full of coins from her late father. There were Roman denarii rattling around next to Victorian pennies, a handful of pre-decimal shillings, … Read more
Where to Buy British Coins: Dealers, Auctions and Online Starting a coin collection can feel like standing at the edge of a very large, very old ocean. There are centuries of British history minted into metal, thousands of dealers and auction houses, and an internet full of listings that range from genuine bargains to outright … Read more