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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BigsWick, post: 121544, member: 3534&quot;]I don&#039;t broadcast the fact that I collect coins, but some of my closer friends know, and a few of my co-workers have caught me perusing the CoinTalk boards while I was at work! Most of them just shrug it off and don&#039;t really have an opinion they&#039;ll express. A few think I&#039;m a &quot;geek&quot; and have said so, but I&#039;m totally cool with that. I look at how they spend their disposable income and shake my head with an equal or even greater amount of disbelief in many cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a close friend who collects sports cards, particularly hockey cards. She has thousands and thousands of them. I have nothing against her hobby, and I would never put down the collecting of cards, but even she admits that in the end what she has is basically pictures on pieces of cardboard. Coins are different to me. Most of them posess a quantitative worth expressed not only in their numismatic value, but also in their face value and, in the case of silver/gold coins, in the amount of which ever precious metal was used to mint them.</p><p><br /></p><p>My friend recently inherited her father&#039;s coin collection, a hobby that he had for decades and shared with no one. He had some really nice coins, most of them in type set albums. Now she wants to finish what he started. Maybe I&#039;ll make a numismatist out of her in the process.....</p><p><br /></p><p>I work in a public library, with computers mostly, but sometimes I&#039;ll substitute at the referece desk in a pinch. I was working there one day when a patron walked in with a paper bag full of common circulated Morgan and Peace dollars. He wanted to know what they were and how much they were worth. The other person working the desk with me had absolutely no clue. I&#039;m sure he could have figured some of it out after a while (maybe not the value) but I knew a great deal off of the top of my head- mint marks, years in production, approximate values, rarer date/mint mark combinations, etc. Before it was over the entire reference department was gathered around us listening to me answer this guy&#039;s questions. We had a lot of fun with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love our hobby. I&#039;ll never regret having gotten involved in it. I can think of nothing I&#039;d rather do instead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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