Coin Magazine

I get Coin Values and CoinAge. They are both good but I prefer Coin Values because they tend to go into a bit more detail on specific coins. CoinAge will go into detail but it is more history and story. I like it just fine but Coin Values will have individual coins and show the detail as far as grading goes. For pricing/value I download the Greysheets from the Internet a few time a year for around 5 bucks or something like that.

I like Coin Values for pricing and articles.

COINS and Coinage magazine are both good for articles and learning about coin collecting. COINS articles are particularly good for anyone that likes Type collecting. CoinWorld and Numismatic News are good too but geared more towards news.

Another idea would be to read The Expert's Guide to Collecting & Investing In Rare Coins--Q. David Bowers and published by Whitman. It's a hefty book, over 600 pages, but you might learn a lot more faster than waiting on magazines and newspaper every month.

Coin World

Practically all already note are OK for what ever you want, need or can use. Most are really educational.
Now here is something to consider. Your location and the method of how your mail is put into a mail box. This is really something to consider. In any large city area where crime is rather common, one of the criminals methods of finding out who has what is to watch their mail. If you have magazines like coin, stamp, gun, knife, etc. sticking out of your mail box, you are now a target for a home invasion, robbery and/or worse.
A person pretends to be passing out an adverisement to look at your mail. Or they walk around with a piece of paper pretending to find an address to see your mail. If anyone asks them what they are doing they just give an address on another street and are told they have the wrong street. Some sit in a car with binoculars and check any such magazines sticking out of your mail box.
All sounds like something out of a TV program? You'ld have to tell that to the two people on my block that were robbed. One was hospitalized for weeks. Both had coin magazines delivered.
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These are some excellent points and something overlooked by most of us. I guess it would be nice if the magazines came in those discreet packaging like Playboy and such but then the wife would start questioning these. In all seriousness though, you do have to take precautions because people know coins are a hot item and are virtually untraceable once stolen. That's why I buy the magazines at the local coin shop or at shows and also make sure I am not being followed.

For people who buy and sell on ebay, make sure you have a PO Box for your address on file as another precaution so that you cant be tracked from that end.

I get Coin World/Coin Values and CoinAge. I like the weekly Coin World as an up to the minute guide to the hobby. CoinAge is o.k. but the price guide is not in depth. They do cover some types of errors though.

Also, join the ANA and you will get The Numismatist magazine monthly.

Jim

BTW, I just sent the following email to CoinAge Magazine I'll post their reply when & if it comes.:

"I'm concerned about advertising that I collect coins. I was surprised when my CoinAge subscription started about 8 months ago that it didn't come in a discreet wrapper. For this reason, I'm thinking of letting the subscription run out & just picking it up at the store, even though it's much more expensive. I'm sure many others have the same concern. The extra cost of a discreet wrapper would be more than offset by the increase in subscriptions once people found out you're using a discreet wrapper. How about it?"

If you work somewhere you can trust, have your subscriptions mailed there. For added protection, use your title, not your name. I started doing this because I was tired of having so many things jammed into my mailbox!

If you have the means, a PO box is great for everything you do not want tied to your house.