Question by Jonny: I am new to coin collecting and I was wondering where (or how) to get silver coins at a cheap price?
By the way, I am Canadian so I collect Canadian coins.
What I mean by silver are coins that are usually minted before 1967 (not bullion coins)

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Answer by Eugene
Unfortunately, silver coins are not easy to collect. Silver content is rather side effect for collector: the coin may be a garbage quality, but noone will sell it to you for less than silver value. The only silver coins that I got for less than silver value - are from the bank rolls. Rarely, you can find silver coin in a roll, esspecially old one. Also in US some people do not know that some silver coins were still minted after 1964. I am not sure how it was in Canada though. ANother thing, foreign silver coins - not many people will know the actual silver content. So you may get lucky and get the coin for less than silver spot price. Hope this helps.

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Question by Wwe: Someone teach me about coin collecting and coin selling pls?
I also must know how to value all common to rare coins.

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Answer by mathdog
http://www.squidoo.com/united-states-coins-and-currency give a short guide to US coins. http://www.squidoo.com/coins-and-coin-collecting gives tips on coin collecting. They also have many other pages on coins http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/blackspanielgallery and http://blackspanielgallery.com/articles.htm.

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Question by Mr. X: What are some good coin collecting websites?
I need websites that sell old coins from ancient Rome and Greece. A website where the prices are reasonable and some other website besides eBay. Perhaps a website that you are familiar with and have bough coins in the past for your own collection. I am a beginner though. Thank you!

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Answer by Alexander Kalian
I myself have ancient Greek coins because I'm half Greek. However, if you are in the UK you must be careful what you bring into here from other countries because any artifact of interest to the state can be repossessed at any time - meaning that lets say a British history museum need an ancient coin for an exhibit, the government can allow them to take one of your ancient coins and use it permanently for their exhibit. For this reason I keep all of my Ancient Greek coins in Greece. So be careful or you may just face a nasty surprise from the government.

Sorry i didn't answer your question, but I thought I should warn you.

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