Danny

Well, from Rainham, the nearest will be Bexley (in Bexleyheath) or Essex (in Chelmsford)... contact details for both can be found on their websites as below: Bexley - click here Essex - click here Thank You.

Thanks for all the help will be sure to let you know if i need any more

Yeah im definately serious, I live in Rainham Essex, I dont know if thats near? Would like to get stuck into it and use some money wisely.

So its best to stick to the top grades at the moment until i get my bearings? do you have any ideas on what coins to start on? predicimal hammered etc...? Thank You. Danny the obvious answer is come to me and I'll take £10k off you no problem at all! Do you want to collect, invest or try to turn a profit? Collecting; buy what you like the look of in the best grade and condition you can find/afford Investing; High grade scarcer items always increase in value over time (1905 halfcrowns, 1869 Pennies etc). Buying to sell; Learn the subject first. If you live in an area with a coin club go along to that, go to fairs/dealers shops and pick their brains (do spend something while there though or you will seriously p**s them off), read books, read the Coin News magazine, visit the forum regularly and handle as many coins as you can so you get used to what they should look and feel like. As to how to make a profit......if you find out could you let me know please? Haha! sounds like a plan, Thanks for all the help much appreciated. Well let you know in a couple days when im rich.

So its best to stick to the top grades at the moment until i get my bearings? do you have any ideas on what coins to start on? predicimal hammered etc...? Thank You.

Here here! To Danny - Look at it this way... if you went out and got a lower-wage job (say £15k pa), its a guaranteed income. Should you wish to deal in coins, to make a similar take-home you would need sales of £150,000 and thats working on a fairly lofty 10% margin! Also consider that you have had to outlay £140,000 in the first place! I have considered this myself in the past but worked out that I would require around £10k liquid capital to sink into 'stock' before it would be worth even trying! Given a mortgage, wife etc, this is unlikely in the near future - though given that I am less than 10 years older than you, I hope that may change! I think ive got about 10k, just need the knowledge though.

HAHA!!! been there and still doing that!

Thanks for the all the great advice, brilliant and friendly forum. I have a couple books i baught a while back will start having a little look through them build up a little collection and maybe make it a hobby for the time being. Im only 18 so still young Thanks, will post again.

Danny I do this for a living and the best advice I can give you is try buying and selling something that you know about. Most dealers (the good ones at least) started off as collectors. You need the knowledge you gain as a collector to become a half decent dealer. As a novice you will not have the first idea about grades, rarity, state of preservation (cleaned, whizzed, tooled etc), value, desirability or authenticity. You need to know all of those to stand any chance at all of even breaking even. Ebay is already cluttered with people selling coins that they know nothing about and the auction rooms already have far too many novices paying silly money for boxes full of unsaleable crap. Sorry to put a dampener on your plans but if you are serious you need to start a collection first. Okay Thanks, Argentumandcoins Maybe Ill start collecting first I do have a whole bunch of worthless old english coins in the cuboard been told would only get scrap value for them though, sold all the pre 1937's Was thinking of bootsales but apparently you get nothing but junk there now everyones too wise. Thanks Anyway.

I have saved up a fair bit of money and am thinking of buying and selling coins, I dont know much about coins at this moment but im willing to put alot of effort in. I just wonderd if anyone could give me any ideas were to start buying and selling cheap coins to gain expierience or? Any information and help would be much appreciated. Thank You.