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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 398584, member: 6370&quot;]I think #1 above hits it on the head for me, I have never aspired to be known as a &#039;force&#039;. I find it interesting but in the end, even though I spend a lot of time on it, its just a hobby and I have never looked for it to be anything else but that. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I dont look at it as a way to make money or gain recognition. I have other things that interest me to the point where I would like to be a &#039;force&#039; or to be known as top in my field...In fact, oddly enough, I am not interested in a lot of aspects of the hobby of collecting. I am just interested in hording coins. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I dont care about grading and nitpicking the condition of the coin (I care about eye appeal and interesting subject only), I dont care to be a part of a club, I dont care about attracting new collectors to the hobby (why? less coins for me!!), dont want to buy books about coins save useful compendiums, I dont care who is considered a &#039;force&#039; in the hobby, I dont care for a lot of the new conventions having to do with how one should approach collecting this decade, the absurd advice I sometimes see from so called &#039;knowledgeable&#039; collectors when it comes to things like cleaning, I dont care to sell or flip, I dont care for anything that might raise the price of a coin or someone who looks to do this, the list just goes on and on. The only real aspects of the hobby I care about are amassing lovely coins with great eye appeal (how they look under an electron microscope I couldnt care less), caring for them, making my coins available to see, seeing the coins of others, seeing new coin types I have never seen before, learning about who is on the coin, the country, sharing my coins and information with others freely and helping someone who is frustrated when I can, the process of attribution, the photography, the history. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the end I dont care if a single person knows my name and equates it with coins...its purely a hobby driven by a real passion for tiny art on metal discs. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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