The coin forecasts and top picks that appear around the new year provide interesting insights.

In making a prediction for any single coin, there’s at least a judgment in its potential to increase in value, driven by collector demand or other market factors.

One of those market conditions that influences the selection of certain coins this year is the direction gold. Gold has been yelling with a mighty roar, perking the ears of coin collectors and investors. When the yellow metal rises, the interest in gold coins increase.

If you’re looking for opinions to where coins are headed this year, ideas for top collectible coins and deeper insights into how gold affects the coin market, you may just want to pick up the January issue of COINage Magazine. It includes these topics and more:

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It’s evening, you’ve already browsed around the Internet for your daily online fix, nothing’s good on TV and you’re otherwise bored silly but don’t feel like going out. What do you do?

As a collector, there’s something that just feels good about relaxing with a great coin book or magazine in hand. If you’re like me, sometimes you’ll put off a good read to savor it for later.

Last night was that time for me. I had already read the latest issues of a few favorites, like Numismatic News, Numismatist, and Coin Values.

So it was a good thing that I had just recently received the November issue of COINage magazine and had set it aside for later enjoyment. If not, I’d have been in one of those monotonous predicaments.

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