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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 2888773, member: 77814&quot;]I&#039;m &quot;whimsical&quot; when it comes to pennies as pennies are easy to collect</p><p>I have ONE Indian Head Cent which fills that design hole for me.</p><p>I like halves and larger myself, where I&#039;m more specific and not whimsical at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a collection of &quot;designs&quot; - a few half cents, 2 cents, 3 cents coins and the early 5 cent/nickels, and early dimes and twenty cent pieces.&nbsp; Then a few early quarters.&nbsp; But the halves/commems on up I collect designs of eagles.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tried moving towards paper collection of eagle designs but didn&#039;t have the passion.&nbsp; I Bought one 1899 Dollar and stopped.&nbsp; Paper isn&#039;t the same as coinage for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>goes back to the &quot;passionate&quot; statement I had.&nbsp; If one is really passionate about collecting a certain thing, or a certain way then they collect for a reason.&nbsp; i&#039;m not passionate about pennies or paper.&nbsp; I am about halves and larger.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Every one is different on their own concepts of &quot;collecting&quot; or &quot;hoarding&quot; and approach it in various ways depending upon budget, etc.&nbsp; You can&#039;t fault any one on being different than anyone else.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recall Kurt mentioning his hoard when he recently moved .. literally a ton or two of coins.&nbsp; yikes.&nbsp; And other ppl have shown pictures of large bags of pennies stored on top of their safes.&nbsp; Basically, some people have large quantities of stuff.&nbsp; I have a modest sized collection and a small penny/change hoard if you want to call it that.</p><p><br /></p><p>My dad also collects and stores pennies and other change.&nbsp; I know he has a couple of those large water bottles full of change. He&#039;s not a coin collector or anything, just saves up change.&nbsp; Guess we now know where I got that concept from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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