A Guide to Coin Collecting

Let me tell you something about myself. I started collecting coins after my father gave me a book of Flying Eagle / Indian Head Cents. It wasn't complete but I started looking for more to fill the book. Here is a place to find some:
U.S. Indian Head Cents

In High School I joined a coin club where they had a weekly coin auction. I soon found, at that time, I could go to almost any bank and get both Morgan and Peace Silver Dollars from the casher. I got lucky a few times and got a Liberty Seated Silver Dollar. After I had been to the bank I went to the coin auction and put up the silver dollars. I made enough to pay for my lunch and entertainment for the week. Here is an example of the Morgan Dollars that I was able to get: 5-PIECE MORGAN TREASURY HOARD SET

Some of My Coin Collection

So much for my past, if you look at my Gallery Page you will see the 2009 US Mint Proof Sets. One of them shows the special pennies for the bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth and the centennial of the first Lincoln cent. The reverse of them shows four different themes in the Presidents life: Birth and Early Childhood in Kentucky (1809-1816), Formative Years in Indiana (1816-1830), Professional Life in Illinois (11830-1861), and Presidency in Washington, D.C. (1861-1865).

Second, look at the reverse of the six quarter-dollar coins honoring the District of Columbia and the five U.S. Territories: the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Each coin has an image representing its location, while obverse has the same George Washington image from the 50 State Quarter Series.

Next, I would like to point out is obverse of the four Presidential one dollar coins. They show the portraits of our ninth through twelfth Presidents: William Henry Harrison (1841), John Tyler (1841-1845), James K. Polk (1845-1849), and Zachary Taylor (1849-1850).

The last item I would like you to look at is the Sacagawea Native American dollar. The reverse is new this year showing the Three Sisters agriculture method. They would plant corn, beans and squash (the Three Sisters) together. This would increase the productivity of each plant by as much as thirty percent.