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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheCitrusGuy, post: 7844849, member: 106294&quot;]I have read through this entire forum and all of your posts.</p><p>Maybe I am just an old soul and totally out of touch with everything.</p><p>I only collect what I like. Period!</p><p>An example, I currently have 258 coins minted from around the world during my birth year, 1966. Yes, there are a few silver coins in there, is it worth much?</p><p>Probably not. </p><p>To me, it is one of my favorite, most priceless collections. If I could only grab a small part of my entire collection during an evacuation, it would be first in my hand!</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, the next one I would grab would be my complete set of &quot;W&quot; quarters. I like that they were only put out for circulation to find, small mintage numbers, and from a seldom-used mint.</p><p>Does that make me an investor or somebody that just appreciates something cool?</p><p>I think a little of both. Think what your life would be if you had a roll of 1909-S VDB pennies? At the time, they were worth very little and nobody thought anything about them. I bet SOMEBODY saved them because they were &quot;neato&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I was only allowed to grab one more part of my collection, it would be the complete Canadian small cent one. I searched long and hard to find all of those, I have about 90% of the varieties too! Why do I like this set? It is a finite set, NEVER to be minted again and it was relatively inexpensive to build. Will I ever have the 1936 dot cent, probably not, but it is still a cool set to own.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess all of this rambling is to say, let the &quot;flippers&quot; flip the expensive coins and commemoratives. If you really &quot;LIKE&quot; the coin, then get it! If you don&#039;t, then let it go. Why do you HAVE to get the latest, greatest, most shiny thing set in front of you?</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t afford any of the Silver Eagles, or a 1916-D Mercury Dime, but I LOVE all of the coins I can afford. I enjoy the looks, the feel, and even if I don&#039;t know the true story of where a coin has been, I can make up a believable one. </p><p>When you hold a coin, of ANY value, remember it is still worth SOMETHING, maybe not to you, or the next person, but it could be worth a million dollars in the eyes of somebody.</p><p>End of rambling[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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