Insuring a Coin Collection in the UK You’ve spent months, maybe years, hunting through car boot sales in Lincolnshire, bidding on Heritage Auctions, and carefully adding to your collection of British sovereigns, pre-decimal pennies, and commemorative crowns. Your collection has grown into something genuinely valuable — not just financially, but personally. And then it hits … Read more
How to Organise a Coin Collection for Easy Reference There is something quietly satisfying about tipping a bag of coins onto a table and knowing exactly where each one belongs. Whether you have just started picking up interesting 50p pieces from your change or you have been accumulating British and world coins for years, the … Read more
Coin Storage at Home: Temperature, Humidity and Light You have just received your first coin from a dealer at a coin fair, or perhaps you have pulled a handful of interesting old pieces from a relative’s biscuit tin. Either way, you are now the custodian of something that may be hundreds of years old, and … Read more
How to Handle Coins Without Damaging Them One of the most common mistakes new collectors make has nothing to do with what they buy — it is what they do with a coin the moment it arrives in their hands. A single careless touch can reduce the value of a proof coin by a significant … Read more
Cleaning Coins: Why You Almost Always Shouldn’t You’ve just picked up an interesting old coin at a car boot sale in Lincolnshire, or perhaps you’ve inherited a small collection from a grandparent who spent decades quietly gathering British coppers and silver. The coin looks a bit dull, maybe a little grimy, and your instinct is … Read more
How to Store Coins Safely: Albums, Capsules and Folders Getting Started: You Don’t Need to Overthink This One of the first things new collectors worry about is storage. You’ve picked up a handful of interesting coins — maybe a few old British pennies, a commemorative 50p, or a circulation find that caught your eye — … Read more