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Message:: [QUOTE="MatrixMP-9, post: 3659524, member: 93422"]Not that anyone cares but I find part of this "hunt" of course is to find something rare and valuable. Truth is I will spend more time and money than anything I will likely find. for me its not ultimately about finding monetary value otherwise I would have quit doing this a long time ago once I realized the true "odds" of that happening. Its the hunt thats fun. Posting finds and getting ripped a little and enjoying it all. For some reason, I like imagining the "journey" a penny has taken. I always tell my daughter "if this penny could talk" what would it say about its life? when holding a 1891 penny, thats 128 year story. Wars, depressions....sitting in a sewer for 79 years being unseen, who knows. I know you guys hate seeing damage pennies and the random nerds who come here and insist its a mint issue but I love looking at those pennies trying to determine what happened to them. Some can be discarded as "parking lot" but some give clues to their journey. Ive seen some of you guys mention things like "oh, thats a laundry coin" because of some tiny detail and thats cool as hell that you have mastered your craft enough to be able to SEE that. You take your skill kind of nonchalantly at times . May seem trivial but its very admirable. All these coins have a story and on the occasion they give a clue to what it was, I just think its sort of interesting.[/QUOTE]