Coin Collecting - The Top 10 List
An associate of mine remembers receiving as a child a big paper bag of old US silver dollars, some going back as far as the late 1890s. Sometime between then and today he has misplaced that old paper bag. To this day, he wonders if any of those coins might have been worth something. There is no arguing that coin collecting is one of the biggest and most expensive hobbies in the world. The price tags of some old coins would turn your hair grey . In this article, we are going to review the 10 most rare coins in existence. Wait until you see what some of these are going for. Kicking off the list at number 10 are "proof gold" coins. While the mint now produces millions of these coins annually, selling them to collectors worldwide, the situation was very different in the 19th century. Back then, only a few thousand were struck each year, and even fewer were proof gold coins. Today, these coins are incredibly rare and highly valuable, consistently fetching high prices regardless o...