My US Coins

Contributed By BRAD HODGES aka SILVERSTRUCK1 of cointalk.org

Coin collecting is a hobby for all age's.  It can prove to be a good investment, or just something to do in your spare time. One thing for sure is that once you start you're hooked. And the good thing is that no matter what coin "strikes your fancy" you can more than likely afford to own a few.

My market is in silver, and though I would not recommend it for the beginning collector I like to think of it as good investment. If your thinking of getting into the silver market here's a few pointer's.

MyUSCoins.com is always progressing and looking for new and better ways to provide information to you and to make it easier and more user friendly for everyone to catalog and inventory their US coins.

What I've been concentrating on lately is a format to provide information to interested visitors on the history of their coin, tips on the value, specs, where to find the mintmarks, my own perspective, and links to purchase some of these coins in case they are interested.

I've been focusing my energies on the dollar section, and I have completed many of the dollar coin templates.  Check them out, by clicking on the following links.

Main Dollar catalog page, Morgan, Peace,Ike, Susan B Anthony, Sacagawea, and Presidential.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or if you would like to volunteer to write up a profile, please contact me or write some comments in our forum.

I sincerely appreciate all of the visitors that have visited the site and especially the ones that have registered and added some coins.  I hope to hear from many more of you soon.

I hope that you all had a fantastic and relaxing holiday break!!  Even if you didn't get to take a break, welcome to 2009!!

Were you lucky enough to receive any coins over the break?  I know I was.  My dad shared a couple of pages of his coin collection with me, and my wonderful wife heeded my advice with the US Mint, and got me a great Presidential Dollar cover.

I will be adding those coins into my collection very soon.  If you haven't already, register now to add your new coins to your own catalog.

Also, if you tried to register but never received the activation, please contact me and I will activate your account for you.  It seems that many of my activation emails may have landed in the SPAM bucket.

The US Mint will be releasing the last coin, Hawaii, in the State Quarter series on November 10th.  There will be a big ceremony in Hawaii, that I will unfortunately not be able to attend, and according to the US Mint the "United States Mint Director Ed Moy will join Governor Linda Lingle in handing out shiny new Hawaii quarters to children under 18 who attend the launch."