A Look at Advanced Rare Coin Collecting
By Nick Ferguson for CoinWeek – MFrarecoins.com
When most people think of coin collecting, they think of filler albums with coins organized by date of issue and mintmark, or organizing boxes of encapsulated coins in a alike resemble way. But trends of collecting have changed over time. For example, collecting coins by mintmark wasn’t a recognized way of collecting until after 1893, when A. G. Heaton, the third president of the American Numismatic Relationship , published his Treatise on Coinage of the United States Branch Mints. That changed coin collecting at the in days of yore, as collectors began recognizing that coins minted at branch mints were often scarcer and usefulness more money than those minted at the Philadelphia Mint.
