coin collector

1. 1.

   a collector and student of money (and coins in particular)

   Synonymsnumismatistnumismatologist

   Broadercollector

Questions about coin collector

What does coin collector mean?

coin collector means "a collector and student of money (and coins in particular)".

What is another word for coin collector?

Close synonyms include numismatist, numismatologist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coin collector a common word?

coin collector is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.