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Size Guitar

I need help with what size guitar to buy?

I want an acoustic guitar but i don't know what size to get, I'm 16 , pretty petite, and have small hands, anyone know?

IMHO, the best thing to do is to go to a store and actually handle the guitars so you can judges for yourself which one is right in terms of size, weight, feel etc.!

Acoustic Guitar reviews the Martin 000-15

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Linkin Park Underground 9 Fan Club (Box Set with Demos CD, T-Shirt, Patch, Letter, and Guitar Pick) $49.90 The limited edition Linkin Park Underground 9 package includes exclusive Linkin Park demos CD featuring the unreleased track "Across The Line", official fan club t-shirt (size L), fan club patch, a letter from Linkin Park, and a LPU9 guitar pick! Membership benefits include access to download the Dead By Sunrise "Morning After" live acoustic track, opportunities to pre-sale tickets and greet passe...

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Luna Flora Series FLO Full Size Acoustic Guitar Combo with AB Gig Bag, Stand, and Strings - Passion Flower Transparent Purple $309.00 Intricately beautiful and sweetly scented, the passionflower has long been valued for both its arresting appearance and its healing qualities. Its calming and soothing abilities, documented for hundreds of years, were well known by indigenous cultures. Flowers span three to four inches in myriad variations of white, pink, red and purple. Luna Guitars' Passionflower is a lovely evocation of the ...

Stagg C530BL 3/4 Size Classical Guitar - Blue $69.99 Staggs 3/4 size classical acoustic guitar is the perfect solution for beginners who want to learn to play guitar! It features a basswood top, back, and sides with a solid maple fingerboard and bridge that are painted black to provide a classic look. The high gloss blue finish gives this beautiful sounding guitar an elegant look as well. Makes an excellent gift idea!...

Oscar Schmidt by Washburn OG2CE Full Size Cutaway Acoustic Electric Guitar - Flame Yellow Sunburst $319.00 The OG2CE is a deep dreadnought cutaway with a full acoustic resonance. It features the WT92 Preamp with digital tuner built in....

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Left Hand Electric

I'm left handed and it hasn't caused me too much grief in my life, but when I decided to learn to play guitar, over five years ago, there came the big decision of which type of guitar to buy - a lefty or a righty. I went to the local music store and told the owner of my dilemma and he had me sit down and try both types. Both felt fine to me, no preference, really. So I said I'd think about it, and I left.

My husband decided to buy me a guitar for Christmas. He has some musician friends and asked them which type to buy for me and they all said I simply HAD to have a lefty! Since hubby knew nothing about playing guitar, he went with their advice and bought me a beautiful Norman left Handed Acoustic Guitar!

On Christmas morning I was thrilled, but I was also dismayed because I had no idea how to play it! Luckily there is a music school nearby and so I signed up for some lessons. My teacher had never had a lefty student before and he assured me it would not pose a problem for him to teach me.

It was funny for a long time because he'd have to switch things around in his head in order to explain them to me, and I'd have to take what he was doing and turn it around in my head too. So we had a lot of good laughs at how mixed up we can get. But it all did start to fall into place in time. One day he had me try his righty electric guitar and I did pretty well at it! He said I probably could have learned to play righty, from the start.

By that point I knew many chords and didn't think I wanted to try changing to a righty, it would probably mess with my brain! He agreed with me, that I was doing fine with a lefty. But in all reality I wish I had tried harder with the righty from the beginning. Why? Because lefty guitars are hard to find, and they tend to be more expensive as a result. It also means I can't play anyone else's guitar, as they are all rightys. It's disheartening to want to play that really cool looking Gibson your teacher has and there's just no way that you can.

I now have my own Les Paul Black Beauty lefty, and a really accomplished righty guitarist can do a pretty decent job at playing it. But overall not many really want to give it a try, it is just too foreign and backwards to them and I get that.

If you are in this predicament that I was in 5 yrs ago, give that righty a real shot before you go for the lefty. Be sure you can't play the righty. You limit yourself so much when you are the odd one out. I really wish there were no lefty guitars then I could play that beautiful righty Gibson that my teacher has!

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can an electric guitar be strung left and right hand?

or should I buy a left hand guitar and string it as such.

here's one problem with doing that: the nut. The grooves for the strings are cut to fit the size of the strings as they would be strung for a righthand player -- the 6th string's nut is cut with a bigger groove because that's the fattest string, and the first string's groove is cut with only a very small groove, bc that string is very thin.
When you flip the guitar around to string it lefthanded, the smallest groove is now up top where your fattest string will be, and the biggest groove is on bottom where the skinniest string will be. You will have a lot of problems.

But, you can buy a nut that is precut for a lefthanded guitar, for just a few dollars. Guitar Center carries them. It is very easy to change out the nut: take a screwdriver, and put it against the side of the nut, and lightly tap it with a hammer, and the nut should slide out.
When you put the new nut in, use a small drop of Elmers glue on the ottom of it to keep it in place. DO NOT use Super Glue, or you will never be able to get the nut out again.
Don't be afraid to do this by yourself, it's really easy.

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Schlage L9050P L9080EU - Electric Storeroom (Fail Secure) Left Hand Reverse Satin Chrome Schlage Mortise Lock with #06A Trim The Schlage L-Series mortise lock line is a heavy duty commercial mortise lock containing a wide array of knob and lever designs. It is available in a variety of keyed and non-keyed functions, and in most popular decorative finishes. It is UL Listed and c...

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Guitar Hollow

what is the difference between a Semi Hollow Body and Hollow Body Guitar?

i am looking for a new guitar and i was wondering the difference. if you could please include some good brands of guitars

Thanks!=)

Generally, a semi hollow body guitar is not as thick in the body as a hollow body guitar. Both are hollow on the inside like acoustic guitars are and they usually have two"f" shaped holes cut into the top wood of the guitar. OTOH, with solid body guitars like Stratocasters or Les Pauls, the body is made of a solid chunk of wood. Hollow body guitars are usually used mostly for playing jazz.

A semi hollow body guitar will have a block or a solid piece of wood running through the middle on the inside to give it a more hefty feel. Because of the block, when you crank up a semi hollow body guitar it won't feed back like a hollow body guitar will. Hollow body guitars are notorious for feedback. Generally, semi hollow body guitars are better for rock'n'roll because you can play them louder and with gain.

I have a Epiphone Dot Deluxe semi hollow body guitar. I paid about $400 for it and got a nice hardshell case with it. Eventually, I'm going to put Gibson '57 pickups on it for about $200 more. After that, it will be a very nice guitar indeed. Epiphone also makes other semi and hollow body guitars that are excellent quality and reasonably priced.

If you have the cash, the best semi hollow body is probably a Gibson ES-335. Gibson also makes a lot of semi and hollow body guitars, too. The ES-335 will run you over $2,000 new though. All Gibsons are way overpriced in my opinion, but they are very, very nice guitars.

Also, Gretsch makes a lot of excellent semi and hollow body guitars. Ibanez makes a number of semi and hollow body guitars that are really good and don't cost and arm and a leg.

Lastly, I would look at a Schecter Corsair which is semi hollow body. Schecter makes great guitars and while I have never played a Corsair, I'm sure it's really nice ax. They are very hard to find, however.

One more thing about semi and hollow body guitars. They are usually very big guitars. If you are small, it will be a lot of guitar to handle.

Good luck and enjoy!

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Atomic Pink Rock

Gem Stones

A gemstone or gem (also called a precious or semi-precious stone, or jewel) is a piece of attractive mineral, which—when cut and polished—is used to make jewelry or other adornments. However certain rocks, (such as lapis lazuli) and organic materials (such as amber or jet) are not minerals, but are still used for jewelry, and are therefore often considered to be gemstones as well. Most Gem Stones are hard, but some soft minerals are used in jewelry because of their lustre or other physical properties that have aesthetic value. Rarity is another characteristic that lends value to a gemstone. Apart from jewelry, from earliest antiquity until the 19th century engraved gems and hardstone carvings such as cups were major luxury art forms; the carvings of Carl Fabergé were the last significant works in this tradition.

For example, diamonds are made of carbon (C) and rubies of aluminium oxide (Al2O3). Next, many gems are crystals which are classified by their crystal system such as cubic or trigonal or monoclinic. Another term used is habit, the form the gem is usually found in. For example diamonds, which have a cubic crystal system, are often found as octahedrons.

 

Gem Stones are classified into different groups, species, and varieties. For example, ruby is the red variety of the species corundum, while any other color of corundum is considered sapphire. Emerald (green), aquamarine (blue), bixbite (red), goshenite (colorless), heliodor (yellow), and morganite (pink) are all varieties of the mineral species beryl.

 

Gems are characterized in terms of refractive index, dispersion, specific gravity, hardness, cleavage, fracture, and luster. They may exhibit pleochroism or double refraction. They may have luminescence and a distinctive absorption spectrum.

 

There are no universally accepted grading systems for any gemstone other than white (colorless) diamond. Diamonds are graded using a system developed by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in the early 1950s. Historically all gemstones were graded using the naked eye. The GIA system included a major innovation, the introduction of 10x magnification as the standard for grading clarity. Other gemstones are still graded using the naked eye (assuming 20/20 vision).

 

A mnemonic device, the "four C's" (color, cut, clarity and carat), has been introduced to help the consumer understand the factors used to grade a diamond. With modification these categories can be useful in understanding the grading of all gemstones. The four criteria carry different weight depending upon whether they are applied to colored gemstones or to colorless diamond. In diamonds, cut is the primary determinant of value followed by clarity and color. Diamonds are meant to sparkle, to break down light into its constituent rainbow colors (dispersion) chop it up into bright little pieces (scintillation) and deliver it to the eye (brilliance). In its rough crystalline form, a diamond will do none of these things, it requires proper fashioning and this is called "cut". In gemstones that have color, including colored diamonds, it is the purity and beauty of that color that is the primary determinant of quality.

 

Physical characteristics that make a colored stone valuable are color, clarity to a lesser extent (emeralds will always have a number of inclusions), cut, unusual optical phenomena within the stone such as color zoning, and asteria (star effects). The Greeks for example greatly valued asteria in gemstones, which were regarded as a powerful love charm, and Helen of Troy was known to have worn star-corundum.

 

Historically gemstones were classified into precious stones and semi-precious stones. Because such a definition can change over time and vary with culture, it has always been a difficult matter to determine what constitutes precious stones.

 

A few gemstones are used as gems in the crystal or other form in which they are found. Most however, are cut and polished for usage as jewelry. The picture to the left is of a rural, commercial cutting operation in Thailand. This small factory cuts thousands of carats of sapphire annually. The two main classifications are stones cut as smooth, dome shaped stones called cabochons, and stones which are cut with a faceting machine by polishing small flat windows called facets at regular intervals at exact angles.

 

Stones which are opaque such as opal, turquoise, variscite, etc. are commonly cut as cabochons. These gems are designed to show the stone's color or surface properties as in opal and star sapphires. Grinding wheels and polishing agents are used to grind, shape and polish the smooth dome shape of the stones.

 

Gems which are transparent are normally faceted, a method which shows the optical properties of the stone's interior to its best advantage by maximizing reflected light which is perceived by the viewer as sparkle. There are many commonly used shapes for faceted stones. The facets must be cut at the proper angles, which varies depending on the optical properties of the gem. If the angles are too steep or too shallow, the light will pass through and not be reflected back toward the viewer. The faceting machine is used to hold the stone onto a flat lap for cutting and polishing the flat facets.Rarely, some cutters use special curved laps to cut and polish curved facets.

 

Color is the most obvious and attractive feature of Gem Stones. The color of any material is due to the nature of light itself. Daylight, often called white light, is actually a mixture of different colors of light. When light passes through a material, some of the light may be absorbed, while the rest passes through. The part that is not absorbed reaches the eye as white light minus the absorbed colors. A ruby appears red because it absorbs all the other colors of white light (blue, yellow, green, etc.) except red.

 

The same material can exhibit different colors. For example ruby and sapphire have the same chemical composition (both are corundum) but exhibit different colors. Even the same gemstone can occur in many different colors: sapphires show different shades of blue and pink and "fancy sapphires" exhibit a whole range of other colors from yellow to orange-pink, the latter called "Padparadscha sapphire".

 

This difference in color is based on the atomic structure of the stone. Although the different stones formally have the same chemical composition, they are not exactly the same. Every now and then an atom is replaced by a completely different atom (and this could be as few as one in a million atoms). These so called impurities are sufficient to absorb certain colors and leave the other colors unaffected.

 

About the Author

I am Mohan read mathematics at Stanford and remained there for his MS. From 1998-1999 on researched in Evolution and in Animal Behavior in  Camrbidge, UK. I was was then a professor in the departments of Anthropology and Biology, New Jersy College, USA. Now teaches at the department of Zoology. Carried out research in several areas of evolutionary biology, particularly in sexual selection and the comparative method.

Bands that I would like?

I like
Nirvana
Iron Claw
Atomic Rooster
Led Zeppelin

I really like Progressive Rock
Jimi Hendrix
The Allman Bros
The Steve Miller Band
Alice in Chains
Mudhoney
Dust
L7 (What you got problem with that!)
Soundgarden
Cream
Mudhoney
Sonic Youth
The Eagles
Meat Puppets
TVC
Dinosaur Jr
Pink Floyd

Hey Slothage. I believe I can help. Try these, every one is pure Hard Rock, Metal, or Prog awesomeness...

All from My Youtube favorites...

Detective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrJr-fuSvWY

Triumph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0YDSj21g20&feature=related

Wishbone Ash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9a_mh5LSwg

Blue Oyster Cult
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Voy4onbs0

The Four Horsemen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzcUvExpuBY

UFO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qP_OqOJ8ug&playnext_from=TL&videos=t9YdlB8SD08

Montrose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk52nGxF-jc&playnext_from=TL&videos=wXHMI-C97Fs

Procol Harum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQC7Kk4WOPU&playnext_from=TL&videos=oQ2xYB1irRE

Spooky Tooth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcVXYXg5fyQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=UswyG2RNsk8

Pavlov's Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib23kaz5GWU&playnext_from=TL&videos=Ux6V_NEVaJ4

Starcastle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRLHh9JRkXE&playnext_from=TL&videos=pQEaHE0fSZA

Whitesnake (Old Whitesnake, pre Hair Metal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbtHgo-Hy9w&playnext_from=TL&videos=grIu8U-LAto

Camel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k5xCkkQAEY&playnext_from=TL&videos=wSPw4Y0ZsyU

Motorhead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b97LFe7Xphk&playnext_from=TL&videos=aEewAlxjGXU

Kansas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjc1LU5Qjds&playnext_from=TL&videos=5TNhrZhJ0Y8

Legend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvv7gu0UKd0&playnext_from=TL&videos=MpE_hxOgR24

April Wine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DkJUOsxkko&playnext_from=TL&videos=zJXO1lx3AzU

Babe Ruth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTPE2pNtKWQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=En_639mc-OI

Robin Trower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtr9QbaZmTk&playnext_from=TL&videos=DGYcUMkH-UM

Rush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTD1QW3SM60&playnext_from=TL&videos=tK4AkaE0sAI

The Godz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfdTAaJi6Ko&playnext_from=TL&videos=LbedIoTYhmU

Krokus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJRJiuDfFeg&playnext_from=TL&videos=kTcCCVyi1F0

Frumpy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDUQN0Chl-M&playnext_from=TL&videos=U1hzYcgpivc

Flower Travellin Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzGihuz3HxM&playnext_from=TL&videos=-Gs8itFm2JU

Crack The Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7BOg1AjYIU&playnext_from=TL&videos=Fr7UQ9dvSCI

Straight from My media player, alphabetically..

Angel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRK_yLAypsA

Aphrodite's Child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selfqEH-JnY

Automatic Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNEp4dXKLI0

Badlands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_7-VqhG4lA

Billy Thorpe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSlDZ27BAY

Boston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK_T77m_m1Y

Budgie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dee9njVdnR4

Buffalo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrBPvN5WNI

Captain Beyond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBG3Ndr0JG0

Caravan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3a-Ybg9A0

Deep Purple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnebZnysmI

The Doobie Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6N_OR2XDHk

Dust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkue5a3tpmw

Eloy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D15aGNi4NCc

Emerson Lake And Palmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0FuFfcCZiE

Fleetwood Mac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RslLbWNALnc

Focus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U

Genesis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqRn91TMe5U

Golden Earring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JcCoqKFkYY

Grand Funk Railroad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8MYsii4DZY

Hawkwind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c4rddZumno

Joe Walsh (James Gang)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2-g_H1YW5g

Journey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAwU0UTUoMY

King Crimson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KogHYeA0ns

Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yVBMUXr4xo

Nazareth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiSg2SUvMFI

Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV8x2HKTRdM

Saga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J0QdXBY0wo

Scorpions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5bGthIz4E

Sir Lord Baltimore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOeOC16Jm9g

Iggy Pop and The Stooges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6vlIvdz71I

Styx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGXYiIDTPDI

Sugarloaf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_DydKnpDsk

Ted Nugent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c3d7QgZr7g

Toto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLfq9Q1B8ro

Uriah Heep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWNGhLPvVwA

Ursa Major
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICLJZX9DIXc

Warhorse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkmh-fA3GPo

Yes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuiI0kV4joQ

Zebra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcTeqc3WtmE

Whewww. See why I used to be popular around here?

If You'll take the time and try them out I guarantee You'll find some stuff You love.

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Coin Collecting on a shoe-string budget

Probably everyone at one time or another has collected coins. Some people save old wheat pennies they find in change and throw them in a jar. Other people collect state quarters, and some others collect certain coins like nickles or dimes, and try to build a complete collection over time. A lot of folks think coin collecting is the hobby of king's and truthfully, it's often called that. A king may be able to build a giant collection of coins, but I promise you, that the small collection a young boy has that may only be worth a couple of dollars, is worth just as much to that boy as a King's coins are worth to him.

I can tell you right now, anyone can collect coins and you don't have to be rich. In fact I have quite a large coin collection, and I have had a very low paying job all my life. There are a lot of ways someone can build a great coin collection over time, while still paying the bills.

Coins are so neat looking, I remember when I was a young boy, my grandad would go upstairs and open a safe we had, inside was a metal drawer containing some old Morgan and Peace Silver Dollars. My grandad would let me sit and play with the coins often. I would hold one by the edge on the table top and flip it on the side with my finger and the coin would spin wildly around on the table like a toy top. The coins were frosty silver or whitish colored and were beautiful to look at, they were large and heavy, not like the little coins we have today. I often wondered how many folks actually carried these things around in their pockets everyday, it only took a few of them to weigh quite a lot.

After my grandad passed away back in 1969, my dad sold the old silver dollars, I don't think he really wanted to, but my grandad had left the family farm pretty deep indebt, so dad had an auction and sold about everything except our house and the barn, to pay off the huge bills. It wasn't too long after that when dad got bitten by the coin collecting bug. At first it wasn't coins but paper money that got dad started. I remember dad saw an ad in the back of some magazine, where a guy was offering to pay $2 for every dollar bill you sent him that had a certain treasurer's name on it, that name was: " Joesph W. Barr ". My dad looked in his wallet at some dollar bills he had, and sure enough he had one that had the signature " Joesph W. Barr " on it. Dad took the dollar from his wallet and kept it in an envelope in his old roll top desk, and after checking his money for several days afterwards, dad found some more of them. Sometime later dad mailed the dollar bills to the address in the magazine ad, and sure enough he soon got a check for the dollars plus an extra dollar each. Dad continued searching and sending in them " Joesph W. Barr " dollar bills for awhile, then after a period of time, the guy no longer was accepting them.

Dad then started buying a few Indian head cents and some buffalo nickels. Then as he got older and money seemed to get a lot more tighter, dad quit buying coins and turned to a new hobby, doing sweepstakes. But by this time, I was hooked, I just loved the look of the old coins, the silver ones and the old copper large cents, they just seemed so neat compared to the boring coins of everyday use. Now as I am writing this article, I stumbled across an interesting article about the " Joesph W. Barr " dollar bills from the 'American Numismatic Association' it said, the following: "At one time, it was speculated that the notes signed by Treasurer Joseph W. Barr would eventually hold a high numismatic value since he was in office for only 23 days in 1968-69. However, during that period, a total of 484 million notes were produced with his signature. The high quantity produced dictates that the notes will never be considered rare in our lifetime. Interestingly, in 1995, numismatic author Alan Herbert stated, "A $1 Barr note deposited in an interest-bearing account in 1969 would have been worth over $4.00, figuring 6% interest compounded annually. A circulated Barr note kept in a safe-deposit box for 26 years is worth $1 today."

So that explains why that guy probably quit buying the " Joesph W. Barr " dollar bills, it seemed they might of been collectible for a little while, but they just never caught on. Today you can still buy them on eBay and other places, sometimes for slightly more than $1.00. Oh well, it is something that has stuck in my mind every since I was a little boy, I will always remember dad checking his wallet for " Joesph W. Barr " dollar bills. Now as I wipe the tears from my eyes, yes I am sad to say dad has been gone a few years now, and I still miss him very much, especially when I sit here alone and think about the times we spent together in the years gone by, oh well, at least it's always great memories when it comes to you, dad.

Now as I regain my mental composure, if I ever had one, I want to say that I never lost the desire to collect coins. And as I got old enough to work full time, and live on my own I started and built a fairly large coin collection. I didn't have much money as I never went to college or trade school, and I have always had a job working as a laborer, so I had to fine ways that I could build up my coin collection cheaply.

One day, I was looking in the back of a Coin collecting magazine that I had purchased at a local news stand, and I found an ad where you could join a coin collecting approval service. They would send you certain coins once a month, and you could select the ones you wanted to buy and keep, and if you didn't want them all, just mail the others back to them, and the next month they would send some other coins for you to examine. What made this program better than the other approval services I had often seen was, you could tell them what type of coins you were interested in, and what price you were willing to spend monthly. I selected miscellaneous U.S. coins, everything from old large cents from the 1800's to silver mercury dimes and buffalo nickels etc. And I chose to only spend $20 a month, for me this was perfect and for about a year or more I stayed in the program and over time I got a nice bunch of coins from them, then something happened and the company folded or went out of business, as I never received any more coins from them and I no longer saw their ad in the magazines.

Overtime I discovered other cheap methods to aquire some nice coins, one of the methods I still use, is something that anyone can do to start building a nice coin collection. Just start searching and examining your pocket change, I still find wheat pennies and silver war nickels, and many pre 1960 nickels, and sometimes a silver coin in pocket change. One time about two years back, I was at a local store and got some change back, I noticed two of the quarters I received looked kinda white in color, examining them closely after I got back home, I discovered they were both pre 1964 silver Washington quarters. I figured somebody must of needed money to buy some cigarettes or milk or something, and must of used some of their old coins, I was just lucky enough to had been there at the right time and place to get them in my change.

One place to find a lot of nice coins is to go to different banks and buy rolls, search through them carefully, and you will be surprised of the neat finds you may come across, plus just add a few out of your pocket change to replace the ones you want to keep from the rolls, and you can turn them back into a different bank for some different rolls of coins to search through.

Another place that is fairly good for finding some rare coins is at local flea markets, be careful though as many of the folks at these places are very aware of a coins value, and they often ask for much more then what the coins are worth. Read up on the coins you are interested in buying, or better yet, take along a pocket coin price guide with you when you go to buy coins, it's better to be thrifty then foolish.

Anyway, now after collecting coins for fun over the years, I have almost every Lincoln cent that was made from 1909 up to present, and I have every Jefferson nickel from the first one that was made in 1938 to present, and I have a nice sized wooden chest full of miscellaneous U.S. coins, including silver dollars, mercury dimes, buffalo nickels, Large Cents and many more unique and rare coins. I figure the coins will make a nice gift someday, something to leave to my daughter and her children, and maybe I can spark that fire in them, that my dad started in me, the joy of coin collecting. So start checking your pocket change today, you just never know what rare finds you may come across.

There are several different types of computer software that are made for coin collecting. One program that stand's out is ' Coin Collector Professional ', it is made for any coin collector, from novices to professionals, and it cost under $20. ' Coin Collector Professional ' may be downloaded and tried for free at this website address:

http://www.rb59.com/ccp

By Robert W. Benjamin

Copyright © 2006

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About the Author

Robert W. Benjamin has been in the software business on the internet for over 5 years, and has been producing low-cost software for the past 25+ years. He first released software on the AMIGA and C64 computer systems in the late 1970's-80's.

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