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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 2415783, member: 73165&quot;]I&#039;ve been thinking a lot about my collection and my collecting interests recently.&nbsp; I&#039;m not really a &quot;complete a set&quot; kind of guy, so I gravitate toward type collecting.&nbsp; I have the beginnings of a 50-piece classic commem type set going, and a nice start on a toned 20th century business strike type set.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, lately, I&#039;ve been straying away from those sets and into some very different areas.&nbsp; Lately I&#039;ve been on a bit of an exonumia kick.&nbsp; I&#039;ve bought a few advertising tokens and an HK-400 so called dollar from the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stuff that&#039;s currently on my radar (that I haven&#039;t gotten around to buying yet) includes:</p><ul> <li>Gallery Mint concept dollars.&nbsp; These are gorgeous pieces; I wish we had gotten one of these designs rather than the Sacajawea/Native American dollar.</li> <li>Dan Carr stuff.&nbsp; All of it.&nbsp; There was literally a listing for all the Dan Carr overstrikes on eBay recently, and I was quite tempted to spend the $3600 on it.</li> <li>Irradiated dimes.&nbsp; I think these are just a cool piece of history.</li> <li>Food stamp booklets and tokens.&nbsp; Not sure what it is about these that does it for me, but they do. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></li> <li>Foreign coins struck at US mints.&nbsp; Before I learned these existed, I never knew that both the smallest and largest coins struck in the US were actually foreign coins (the Panama pill and the 1973 Liberia $5 elephant coin, respectively).&nbsp; <br /> </li> <li>Second century denarii.&nbsp; The second century is such a great period to collect, because there are a lot of coins that are very affordable in high grade (e.g. many of the denarii of Antoninus Pius), as well as some real rarities (e.g. anything struck under Pertinax, who was only emperor for 87 days in AD 193).</li> <li>Low serial number notes.&nbsp; I came across what I think is the ultimate low serial on eBay: L00000001*.&nbsp; Yeah, that&#039;s right, a serial #1 star note, PMG VF 30 net. It was a little outside my range at $8000 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, but boy, did I drool over it for a bit. (If you want to buy it, PM me and I&#039;ll give you some info so you can contact the dealer who owns it.)<br /> </li> <li>Birthday notes.&nbsp; I really want to capture a note with my birthday as the serial number.&nbsp; In fact, since I was born in a one-digit day of a one-digit month, I&#039;d settle for some suitably cool serial that included M/D/YY. I&#039;ll probably never find it though.</li> <li>Military payment certificates.&nbsp; These are interesting for the history behind them.&nbsp; For some reason, I&#039;m particularly drawn to the ones from the Korean War.&nbsp; Also, Hawaii and North Africa notes kind of fall into this as well.</li> <li>$100 Trillion Zimbabwe dollars.&nbsp; I love this ultra high denomination.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s the highest ever written out in numbers on a note, isn&#039;t it?</li> </ul><p>Then there&#039;s my side collection: state quarters in PCGS MS66 flag holders.&nbsp; Yeah, I know, not very ambitious, but it&#039;s a fun distraction.&nbsp; And, actually, they&#039;re somewhat hard to find if you insist on matching grades and the flag holders.&nbsp; I have about a third of them in total by date and mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and then there&#039;s photography.&nbsp; Yeah, I want to get around to building one of [USER=1892]@SuperDave[/USER]&#039;s $400 rigs so I can shoot cool photos like he does.</p><p><br /></p><p>So those are my distractions.&nbsp; What&#039;s drawing your attention away from your main collection these days?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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