5 Ways To (Re)Connect With Numismatics When You’re Stuck Indoors

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Spending time inside at home and can’t get outside? No worries! There’s plenty to do indoors. Netflix and chill… Clean out the closets… Buff the floors… Play games… Read books… Collect coins…

Wait, collect coins? Yes!

Whether you’re a coin collector who abandoned the hobby long ago as life became busier, a seasoned numismatist who has always collected coins, or someone whose only interest in coinage was spending it as money, indoor time is an excellent opportunity to foster deeper connections with numismatics.

So, how can you improve your involvement with the hobby when you’re stuck indoors? Here are five ways you can more closely connect with coins at home:

#1 – Study & Collect a New Coin Series

This objective is ideal for kicking off your indoor immersion in the hobby whether you’re a new, intermediate, or advanced collector. Coming into numismatics for the first time? Awesome! The world is your oyster and you can begin your journey into the hobby by taking any avenue you wish. United States coins, world coins, ancients, moderns – you name it. But what about seasoned collectors? Even veteran numismatists can spice up their coin collecting life by exploring a new series!

#2 – Organize Your Coin Collection

A rolling stone may gather no moss, but a coin collection can get a little cluttered and dusty after a while. So, whether you’re starting on the numismatic path for the first time or wending your way down a road in the hobby you’ve been on for half a century, it might be time to take a look at your collection – your whole collection – and see what needs a little cleaning up or even cleaning out.

#3 – Set or Reset Your Collecting Goals

A little time indoors can give rise to introspection… And that’s certainly the case for coin collectors, who – temporarily removed from the hustle and bustle of daily life – may have a chance to reassess their numismatic goals. Even the collector who has focused only on Lincoln Cents, Morgan Dollars, or British Sixpences since the days of disco may decide to refine their hobby objective. This doesn’t necessarily mean changing series or eschewing the coins collected over many decades. Rather, a resetting of goals may mean, for example, deciding to upgrade the coins in your collection or pursuing the myriad varieties attributed within your series of choice.

#4 – Buy & Sell Coins Via Postal Mail or Online Trading

All of this reassessing and organizing of your collection can ramp up the appetite to buy new coins to reach revised objectives and fill gaps that you now find may exist in the collection. Of course, buying new coins often means having to sell others to help increase available collecting funds. But how do you buy and sell coins when you’re stuck indoors? That’s easy! Coin collectors have been buying and selling coins by mail order for many decades. Meanwhile, the advent of the internet years ago makes it easier than ever to buy from reputable dealers, sell coins through auction houses, and engage in numismatic trading via other online-based marketplaces.

#5 – Begin a PCGS Registry Set

Want to make collecting coins even more exciting? Take your hobby to the next level with the PCGS Set Registry^®. Debuting in 2001, the PCGS Set Registry provides collectors all around the world opportunities to display their collections online and compete with other collectors for top rankings within given predetermined sets. But the PCGS Set Registry is about more than bragging rights – it’s a path to obtaining real recognition from your peers in the hobby and even winning coveted awards and prizes for reaching certain thresholds. To find out more about becoming a PCGS Set Registry member, call our Customer Service team at 1-800-447-8848 or click https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry