Popular Coin Collecting Themes
Collectors of coins often have a theme around which they collect. A few popular themes include:
Country collections
Collectors may find coins from every country that ever minted a coin, or they may aim to collect every coin every minted by a particular country.
Year collections
Rather than collecting one type of coin, some collectors attempt to collect every type of coin minted by year. For example, a collector might collect one Lincoln cent for every year from 1909 to the present. This is one of the most common ways to collect US currency. In fact most bookstores or coin collecting stores sell specially designed books, or coin albums, for the purpose of collecting coins by year.
Mintmark collections
A mint mark determines where a coin was minted. US currecnty is minted in such places as Denver, San Francisco. When you look at a Lincoln penny, for instance, near its date, is a small letter that determines where it was minted. The letter D denotes Denver. The letter S is for San Francisco. When collecting by year and mint mark, it isn’t enough to collect one coin for each year, but for each year collect every coin minted.
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