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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2638518, member: 19463&quot;]All collecting hobbies as I defined them when I was a kid are suffering.&nbsp; I believe this is because they morphed from collecting thing that were interesting in their own right to things made to be collected interesting only because someone told us they were worth something.&nbsp;&nbsp; Coins certainly made this move when kids stopped filling penny books and started buying proof sets.&nbsp; My wife collects bells but is in the minority who collect bells made to be used as bells rather than things made to sell at souvenir shops inscribed with the name of an attraction mounted on a worthless bell. </p><p>Baby rattle with two bells</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/139726274.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Many people now collect music and videos in numbers beyond what they can watch in their remaining life time.&nbsp; I have about a thousand CD&#039;s but listen only to what fits on a smallish USB drive I have in my car (perhaps 300 songs).&nbsp; The rest are a collection of things waiting for the last player capable of reading the format and someone who wants to listen to the worst, outdated music of the 20th century.&nbsp; Are my Roman coins waiting for the last collector of such dinosaurs?&nbsp; How many coins will that collector want in the last collection?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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