coin collecting can vary from checking your own pocket change to purchasing expensive rare coins. there are so many different coins from all over the world that finding new ones to add to your collection shouldn't be so difficult.

I have some hand-me-down coins that I want to cash in but family guilt prevents me. I have a few Kennedy Half-Dollar proofs that are nice. I pull them out once in awhile and think "Hey dude, what was Marylin like?"

UPDATE: I was traveling with a co-worker one day and we came up to a toll booth, he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out some change and said here is a wheat penny, I asked what the date was and he said 1943; my heart started to race and I said no, it is not and he said yes it is and we went back and forth for a while like this. I looked at the penny and it was copper but I could not read the date without my glasses. I asked him to double-check it then he said, oh wait it's 1942. See there was only around forty 1943 copper pennies made and approximately twelve are left in existence. The current value of the penny is unknown but one sold for $82,500.00 in 1996. ORIGINAL MESSAGE: I started a coin collection when I was young and even though I do not spend a lot of time with the hobby now it will only go up in value.

Especially proof sets.

In Australia, we havn't had any major currency changes so our coins have been the same for the past 35 to 40 years. Since I'm young, I havn't really collected much coins. But if I could, this would be a really interesting thing to collect. It would be interesting seeing coins from different countries at different eras.

This was my favorite hobby when I was a young boy. But back then, my Mom worked in a bookstore with a cash register and she could exchange her coins for some she found that were needed in my collection. In those days, you could still occasionally find a Mercury dime, buffalo nickel, walking Libery half-dollar, and on rare occasions, even a Standing Liberty quarter (though it was all but impossible to find one with a date still on it). I loved coins back then. Today, each one honors a specific president instead of a virtue, and it's almost impossible to find a rare coin at all. So I take off one star, because the only way to have a good collection now is to go to coin shops and spend money for one.

Certainly, you would want to invest now as there are some that will never be minted again. Once you turn 60, they might be worth thousands.

I really don't collect coins. Why? Just for a decoration? Nah, I'd rather spend my coins than collect it. ... I'm not a materialistic person by the way.

started when i was a kid and surprisingly i was able to maintain my collection despite relocating a number of times. would not be consider myself a serious collector, but i focus on morgan silver dollars, silver eagles, and wheat pennies.

Yep, those too.... especially wheat pennies and state quarters.

I still have my collection I started when I was 10 years old. Coin collecting was a bit more fun in the 1970s, when a handful of change could yield treasures like Indian Head pennies, Buffalo nickels, and silver coins. Today, you're lucky if you can even get a wheatback penny. The US Mint has made some interesting variations, but real collectors like the excitement of finding a rare Key Date. I was thrilled when my dad gave me a small sack of coins he got from his sister (she collected coins). I found a 200 year old Large Cent and a very rare Indian Head Penny.

My son collects mine puts them in his piggy bank and calls it work- then my fiancee steals them from his piggy bank for laundry- thats called taxes for public works.