The Hilarious Guide To Coin Collecting: A Funny Coin Collecting Book – The Gift for Coin Collectors, Numismatists and Enthusiasts, Full of Satirical Humour ... Obsession (The Hilarious guide to....)

If you’ve ever spotted an interesting coin…
then spent twenty minutes proving it was worth exactly what it says on the front…
this will feel uncomfortably familiar - and painfully funny.

You didn’t mean to become a coin collector.
You just noticed one coin.

Now you’re checking dates, mintmarks and edges, inspecting loose change before allowing it back into circulation, and developing surprisingly strong opinions about tiny differences nobody else can see.

The Hilarious Guide to Coin Collecting is a sharp, affectionate and genuinely funny look at the wonderfully obsessive world of coin collecting - where perfectly spendable money becomes too important to spend, collecting plans acquire increasingly creative exceptions, and one empty space in an album can take control of an otherwise functional adult.

It’s a funny coin collecting book written for people who understand that seventy grades can still produce precise disagreement, that a bargain may require a full criminal investigation, and that a coin which survived two thousand years of human civilisation now apparently needs protecting from your fingerprints.

Whether you call yourself a coin collector, numismatist or simply someone who has started looking at loose change rather differently, you’ll recognise far too much of yourself in these pages.
Inside, you’ll recognise: Removing perfectly good money from circulation because it looks interesting Collecting plans developing considerably more exceptions than rules Discovering flaws under magnification you were happier not knowing existed Destroying hundreds in value with a polishing cloth and good intentions Perfectly innocent auction bidders becoming mortal enemies Paying far more than face value for money you have no intention of spending Grandad’s old coin tin briefly becoming a convincing retirement strategy Treating a suspicious bargain like an unsolved murder Perfect for: Coin collectors, numismatists and enthusiasts who can laugh at themselves Partners, friends and family searching for a genuinely relevant gift for a coin collector Anyone who has ever rescued a coin from the indignity of circulation Relatable, knowing and dangerously accurate - the coin collecting gift that understands how a harmless interest in small pieces of metal can somehow lead to specialist lighting, financial negotiations and lifelong grudges against strangers at auctions.