Coin Magazines

I agree that books are the way to go for "education". However, there is quite a bit that may be gleaned from periodic publications. If you have a specific interest, you can join a numismatic society and (usually) receive their journals which are normally packed with information. For a more general approach, you can join the ANA (money.org) and receive The Numismatist publication.

I personally subscribe to all of the Krause Publications magazines, including Numismatic News and Coins Magazine. They are a mixture of commentary, propaganda, and good solid information on coins.

Their publications are fairly reasonably priced if you go with a subscription (rather than buying at a newstand or store). Coins Magazine is published monthly, as well as the Bank Note Reporter and World Coin News. The Numismatic News is published weekly. Unfortunately, some of the material is regurgitated between the publications.

Education-wise, going through a venue such as ebay or Abebooks may be a better bet and search for some older magazines and books on numismatics. Although books are more expensive piece-wise, they usually contain much more valuable information all around.

John1

Does anyone have any promo codes to get CoinWorld for a discounted price?

I think books are much better for learning when starting out. Magazines are nice to pick up bits and pieces of new info and to gain some other ideas. The content of CoinWorld is usually fairly good and I do find some interesting articles, but I usually find myself flipping through most of the pages due to the extensive amount of ads, guides, and useless info. I do get some good info from it, but it seems like a small amount relative to the size of the magazine. Although I only get a few issues per year, Coinage is my preferred magazine. I find that I usually will pick up Coinage a few times a year when it has some featured articles that interest me (I doubt I would ever subscribe to it though).

The celator is the only one I subscribe to.