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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2167466, member: 16729&quot;]Your behavior as a collector sounds like the kind of collecting that was done before plastic slabs.&nbsp;&nbsp; Go for it.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no &quot;wrong&quot; way to collect coins, ever (unless you&#039;re one of those &quot;best of the worst&quot; slab collectors:&nbsp; Those people are nutters).</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people really like the social aspect of collecting, or really enjoy &quot;keeping up with the Joneses&quot; by collecting the same as their peers, and therefore can belong to their little club.&nbsp; With the current aesthetic in coin collecting in the USA (slabs, value, and micro-grading) the only thing I think you&#039;ll miss out on might be the social aspects.&nbsp; You&#039;ll just have to find somebody like yourself, in that case.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t collect the kind of coins that most other &#039;coin people&#039; around me do, and therefore I don&#039;t really have a lot of conversation with them about my serious coin interests.&nbsp; If I do, it&#039;s usually a one-way conversation, me talking, them listening (and that&#039;s rather boorish), so I just keep it to myself.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, I do collect Lincoln Cents, so I can at least connect at that level.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I do notice, is that if you ever get to know an old-timer who&#039;s been collecting various stuff over the years, or just lives and breathes this stuff all the time, you can have great interactions with them, regardless.&nbsp; They seem to connect with any level of collector.&nbsp; Some people are so knowledgable, helpful, and are great to listen to, and you can get good coin book titles from them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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