During the last few weeks I’ve had a similar conversation with a few new and more experienced collectors: what should I be collecting? I’ve found all the conversations that I have had with these collectors to have a similar unifying theme; at least from the standpoint of the collectors.   
read more »

So you’ve made the decision that you are going to collect a specific series. What are the next step(s) that you should take? If you are going to form a serious, high-end collection one of the first things that you need to do is to examine comparable collections. As an example, if you have decided to assemble a set of Liberty Head eagles, it would make sense to know the grades of other sets that have been put together.   
read more »

Even though I am a dealer who has a reputation as being very pro-collector, I hadn’t actually collected anything numismatic (with the exception of 19th century books and catalogs) for a number of years. Being a dealer and a collector simultaneously is very difficult and I certainly did not ever want to find myself in a situation where I was debating whether to sell a new purchase or to keep it for my collection.   
read more »