Hoarder - An individual who amasses a great quantity of a numismatic item.
hoarder An individual who amasses a quantity of a numismatic item(s).
hoarder: a person who builds a hoard.
Hobo nickel: a Buffalo Nickel with the Indian's head re-engraved into amusing images.
holed: a coin that has a hole drilled through it, usually so that it can be worn as jewelry.
At the beginning of the war, hoarders and speculators saw to it that gold coins again vanished from public view, including the eagle, reintroduced in 1838 after a 34-year hiatus.
While there are many success stories with collectors and collections, there are also stories of profits which involve hoarders and accumulators.
government coinage had vanished from circulation; hoarders and speculators, joined by millions of just plain frightened Americans, had set aside every coin they could get their hands on, ...
Before long, however, they also became a target for hoarders. They were, after all, government-issue coins, and as such were preferable to the all-but-irredeemable "shinplasters" (scrip and wildcat bank notes) being widely offered.
acquired duplicates, triplicates, and even larger numbers of coins not particularly as a hoarder, but because he felt that by doing this he could study them at leisure and observe their die characteristics, and, further, ...
So successful was the one-two punch of an active government campaign to retire the large cents and a growing surge of beginning collector/hoarders that within a decade there was a major shortage of circulating change.
full of information that for the beginning collector is priceless. It could certainly guide a beginning collector down the path of determining what he/she might have in interesting in collecting to become a true collector rather than a hoarder.
 See also: Numismatic, Proof, Collector, Coin, Hoard
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