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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 18173, member: 57463"]I think that this sort of touches on the solution.  I say that I am not a collector.  My only attempt was at Mercury Dimes, long since abandoned.  I also pursued "Philosophers" (small silver coins worth a day's wages from teh towns and times of Greek philosophers) and left that aside when I was somehow emotionally satisfied.  I still keep an eye out for "Aviation on Banknotes" but I have most of them and I know where to get the other and so they are not that interesting to pursue actively.  I sold off my collection about five years ago and kept about 25 coins that I consider to summarize Money as a Virtue.  So, that collection is complete and completed. Of course, there is no Whitman Folder for it.  So, if it is a collection, it is so in my own view. When I look at what I do in numismatics, I see that I have "three or four collections going at once."  The result might seem like an accumulation to an outsider, perhaps. And then, there is the fact that collecting is what Clifford Mishler of Krause Corp. called "a gene you do not inherit."  Collectors seem to have something within them that others do not.  We acquire for some reason that is not reasonable. MichaelANA R-162953[/QUOTE]