WordNet
n. a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) [syn: numismatist, numismatologist]
Usage examples of "coin collector".
He examined the gold piece with the detachment of a coin collector, running admiring fingers over the embossed pattern of runes and symbols.
He was a coin collector, and he'd add a coin for birthdays and other occasions, or just because he'd picked up something at a show.
The second was a much meatier check from a coin collector who had lost a case of cash from dead nations over the side of his yacht in Lake Michigan and resorted to trying out the only wizard in the phone book to locate them.
I cant operate the phone, not unless I can find a coin collector wholl trade me another Swiss ten-franc piece of current issue.
To tell an archeologist that a smuggler had 'cleaned up' an artifact, was like telling a coin collector that his nephew Joey had gotten out the wire brush and shined up his collection for him.