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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 2888270, member: 77814&quot;]When I was small I used to collect spare change and stamps.</p><p>I then would buy &quot;coins&quot; that were affordable, such as the US Proof sets.</p><p>Why? I guess (1) they were affordable, and (2) they were neat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did I care when I was less than 10 yrs old that they may be worth more than what I paid for them.&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; I looked at them for a bit then put them away.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have all that spare change, stamps (and US stamp sets), and US Proof sets, why?</p><p>(a) I didn&#039;t know there were rules that you had to get rid of them if you simply put all the stuff aside for decades,</p><p>(b) they don&#039;t really take up much space</p><p>(c) I really don&#039;t have much of an interest in them.&nbsp; And really no interest in putting effort into going through them nor getting rid of them.</p><p>(d) and now I also take my spare change and throw all the Washington Quarters or earlier into a jar.&nbsp; I also do that with pennies that are 1980s and earlier.&nbsp; These are my small &quot;hoards&quot; of coins from spare change are only pennies and quarters.&nbsp; I really never had an interest in dimes and nickels. </p><p><br /></p><p>It might make a penny or quarter collector salivate.&nbsp; But not me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nowadays I collect coins but my interest is limited to certain coins.&nbsp; And I &quot;collect&quot; other coins but may have limited interest in them.&nbsp; For instance last year I bought a 1909 VDB (or what ever it is) penny.&nbsp; Okay, it&#039;s a penny .. it didn&#039;t do anything for me.&nbsp; So I put it away.</p><p><br /></p><p>Am I a hoarder?</p><p>I doubt it.&nbsp; My entire collection (excluding my &quot;small hoards&quot; of pennies and quarters) would fit into a single box unlike someone else here on cointalk who literally has tons of coins.&nbsp; And all my pennies/quarters probably would fit in a bucket unlike some who have bags and bags of pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I might have even been snickered at for collecting the recent ASE Congratulation sets which I bought over the last several years to actually give away to ppl graduating high school, but never did.&nbsp; But those are probably the only coins I&#039;ve sold from my collection from the recent insane interest in them.</p><p><br /></p><p>But anyways, when I pulled out one of the unsealed envelopes for this picture, it reminded me of when I got it.&nbsp; One of those &quot;oh yeah, that was way back then ...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless someone is going to tell me that it&#039;s worth $1,000 or more it&#039;ll just go back into storage for another day when it makes me reminisce back in time (or some other question about them), just like that packet of space stamp collection books from the post office from the 1970s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, maybe my kids will find interest in everything at some point.</p><p>And look, they&#039;re all not black.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]693592[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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