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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 4602696, member: 110226&quot;]Everyone marches to his or her own drummer.&nbsp; Everyone has varying tastes and preferences.&nbsp; While I do find a lot of hyping and promotion going on with US coinage, it does actually exist also with ancients, especially by the large bullion dealers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think there is a natural tendency for collectors to concentrate on coins of their own country, at least initially.&nbsp; That&#039;s basically how I started in the 1970&#039;s, collecting Morgan dollars by VAM variety.&nbsp; That interest did not last very long.&nbsp; Soon I branched out to world coins and ancient coins, lack of focus or attention deficit disorder, I suppose.</p><p><br /></p><p>I now have very few US coins left, mostly &quot;type&quot; examples, but I am happy to have them.&nbsp; The preponderance of the collection is world and ancient coins, with my concentration now on the latter.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, yes, the 1878 CC Morgan dollar is common, compared to the availability of many ancient coins, but we live in a world of relativity.&nbsp; So, for those collectors perusing US coins, may they find happiness, knowledge and fulfillment in their collecting endeavors![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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