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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1369877, member: 26302&quot;]I have two actually. I got interested in US coins as a child. My mother had a little plastic bank under her bed she kept odd things in. In there was an old WL half. I remember being mesmerized by the beauty of it, and used to break into it once a week at least just to stare at it when I was 5. A few years later got a starting coin collecting kit, and collected for a while. I stopped as a teen, but got back into them when I was in college. I went to a coin show and was amazed how cheap WL halves were. I started buying all I could afford. After I while I got into junk mercuries, silver dollars, and the like, then moved up to better US coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did that for a number of years, and was getting bored with US coins. Then one day I was at a show and there was a dealer there with ancient coins. I wandered over and bought a 3/4 facing Larissa bronze. Anyone who knows these coins know how great a work of art they are, and this one was XF and bright green hard patina. At the time I was overpaying for it, but I imagine its worth more than I paid now. Anyway, the idea of holding a beautiful, 2300 year old coin from ancient Greece in my hand simply mesmerized me again, just like I was when I was 5. Since that day I have bought very few US coins, mainly out of boredom or as part of a lot if I do. I started with traditional ancients, but now am working more on fringe areas like Central Asia. I think I always like a road less traveled, when in US coins I collected toned 19th century coins when they were disdained, and now collect areas that most ancient collectors have never heard of.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw Koen, I highly suggest you concentrate on US coinage from about 1916-1940, at least for a type set. Many consider it the height of beauty in US coinage, and that era reminds me a lot of the beauty of many ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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