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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 20174, member: 57463&quot;]Ed Zak replied: &quot;It is human nature we collect something. From teapots to fishing lures, most people like to collect something.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>That is not true.&nbsp; Clifford Mishler has called collecting &quot;a gene you do not inherit.&quot;&nbsp; There is some indefinable difference between collectors and non-collectors.&nbsp; You got replies already from people who were introduced to it by family members (uncle; father), but collecting does not <u>necessarily</u> run in families.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Mishler&#039;s Thesis (as I call it; he does not call it that), people who collect one thing tend to collect other things. Both his company, Krause, and their competitors at Amos (Coin World, etc.) profit from that observation.&nbsp; Fishing lures are not my thing.&nbsp; I do have some meteorites, stamps, fountain pens, watches,..., and lots of books.</p><p>I have found some nice first editions.&nbsp; I have histories by William Graham Sumner and James Ford Rhodes.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For all of that, there are many kinds of collectors and I am not one who needs one of everything. I am not fixed on one collectible.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, to make the point, although my wife is also an accumulator, our daughter is not.&nbsp; The garbage can is her favorite household appliance.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for why I collect coins, I guess it all began with Ayn Rand, but really, I never actually got interested in numismatics per se until about 10 years ago and I am almost 55 now.&nbsp; So, for me, childhood did not have coins in it.&nbsp; Of course I had baseball cards.&nbsp; My brother and I tried stamps, but they were not interesting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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