http://www.myylt.com/2010/03/09/any-tips-for-a-beginner-currency-collector/ Discussion of Forex Trading and Currency Trading Thu, 24 May 2012 01:13:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.myylt.com/2010/03/09/any-tips-for-a-beginner-currency-collector/#comment-23087 Taiping Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.myylt.com/2010/03/09/any-tips-for-a-beginner-currency-collector/#comment-23087 The general rule to collecting numismatic items (coins,paper money,medals or tokens) is to always buy the book before the item. You would get much more info from what are called PICK's books. The numbers for world currency all have numbers beginning with a P. The books are now put out by Krause publications and are called Standard Catalogs of World Paper Money. There are 3 #1 is 1368-1960, #2 is Specialized issues to 1960 (example Philippine Guerrilla currency of world war II) and the #3 book is currency from 1961 to date. The catalogs may be at your library or you can get them from Krause publications (they have a web site). There is a lot of info in the books including varieties and prices as well as grading. A good buy is when you get a rare variety for the price of a common one. Numismatics is still a hobby of reference books even though it now going slowly into the electronic age. 2 of the books are available on CD or DVD at lower prices than the books, see Krause on that. Hope this helps. The general rule to collecting numismatic items (coins,paper money,medals or tokens) is to always buy the book before the item. You would get much more info from what are called PICK’s books. The numbers for world currency all have numbers beginning with a P. The books are now put out by Krause publications and are called Standard Catalogs of World Paper Money. There are 3 #1 is 1368-1960, #2 is Specialized issues to 1960 (example Philippine Guerrilla currency of world war II) and the #3 book is currency from 1961 to date. The catalogs may be at your library or you can get them from Krause publications (they have a web site). There is a lot of info in the books including varieties and prices as well as grading. A good buy is when you get a rare variety for the price of a common one. Numismatics is still a hobby of reference books even though it now going slowly into the electronic age. 2 of the books are available on CD or DVD at lower prices than the books, see Krause on that. Hope this helps.

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