Welcome to Buy Collectible Coins!

Collecting coins is a hobby that can bite you at any time in your life. As a child, I would look through my change for the elusive wheat pennies and would never spend those. Some of those wheat pennies for some turned out be very valuable. This is why a lot of people buy collectible coins.

Every since the worlds first minted coin was minted by King Alyattes in Sardis, Lydia, Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), c. 610-600 BC., people have been collecting coins in one fashion or another. Some people just kept them not for collecting but just to keep, then they found out the coins they kept turned out to be quite valuable to others and the world of buying and collecting coins was born.

The fascinating thing about coins from around the world are the numerous sizes and shapes. When I was young and lived on the island of Malta for a while, I couldn't get over the size of their equivalent pennies. Those things were larger than our quarters and only worth a penny.

Today, both coins old and new seem to have a special attraction for many people. Its been estimated that the number of active collectors in the world range into the millions. Part of the attraction is the excitement of searching for and finding specific coins that complete a section in a collection. Of course one of the biggest attractions is the possibility of finding rare coins at bargain prices and then hoping that those coins in your collection over time will increase in worth and be worth a small fortune someday.

The American Numismatic Association which was founded in 1891 with the purpose of promoting the exchange of knowledge, and is the largest organization of coin collectors in the world. It's headquarters is in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

There are also numerous special museum collections of coins in the United States among them are the smithsonian institution, Washington, D.C., and the American Numismatic Society, New York City.

Whatever your reason is for buying collectible coins, the best way to buy collectible coins is at an auction or from an independent coin shop and not from a dealer shop. If you buy your collectible coins from a live auction, you can save countless dollars in the process.

We've built this site around providing information about collectible coins and also have provided you a way to see, search and even bid on the current coins on auction. The listings are for auctions that are ending soon so you have a great chance of placing the winning bid to collectible coins that you have been searching for. If you don't see what your looking for, bookmark the site and check back often since the listings change frequently.