Mint gathering is the accumulating or dealing of coins or other kinds of coined legal tender.

Mints of concern to accumulators frequently include those that circularised for just a little time, mints with coin misplays and particularly beautiful or historically important pieces. Coin collecting can be distinguished from numismatics in that the last mentioned is the regular analyse of money. Although nearly connected, the two fields of study are not needfully the same. A numismatologist could or could not be a coin collector and contrariwise.

People have accumulated mints for their bullion prize for as long as mints have been coined. Nevertheless, the accumulation of mints for their aesthetic prize was a later developing. There is attest from the archaeologic and historical papers of old Rome and Mesopotamia that mints were accumulated and cataloged by students and state treasuries. It as well looks verisimilar that private citizens accumulated old, foreign or commemorating mints as an inexpensive, portable kind of artistic creation. Agreeing to Suetonius in his De vita Caesarum (The Lives of the 12 Caesars), composed in the 1st century CE, Augustus would some of the times present older and foreign mints to friends and courtiers during fetes and different exceptional junctures.