I can recommend r/coins, r/AncientCoins, r/papermoney, r/Coins4Sale, and r/exonumia. Outside of Reddit, the cointalk.com forums are excellent. I'd stay away from the PCGS and NGC forums, at least for a while.
You missed an opportunity to learn from that blank stamp, I think. It probably could have taught you something about the manufacturing process of stamps.
They're minerals, Marie! Seriously, though, you just described my experience of the coin collecting community pretty well, too. You've got the people who have full collections of mint state Buffalo nickels, and you've…
For coins specifically, I can tell you what I like about them. I collect coins from all across time (literally back to the 7th century BC, when the first coins were minted), and all over the world. To me, they're tiny…
I can recommend r/coins, r/AncientCoins, r/papermoney, r/Coins4Sale, and r/exonumia. Outside of Reddit, the cointalk.com forums are excellent. I'd stay away from the PCGS and NGC forums, at least for a while.
You missed an opportunity to learn from that blank stamp, I think. It probably could have taught you something about the manufacturing process of stamps.
They're minerals, Marie! Seriously, though, you just described my experience of the coin collecting community pretty well, too. You've got the people who have full collections of mint state Buffalo nickels, and you've…
For coins specifically, I can tell you what I like about them. I collect coins from all across time (literally back to the 7th century BC, when the first coins were minted), and all over the world. To me, they're tiny…