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<p>[QUOTE="Jeepfreak81, post: 3080090, member: 93888"]I struggled with this too. I've collected off and on through the years since I was a kid which has left me with about 20 coin folders all of them not quite filled with circulated coins. I also have a handful of other coins but I never had any area of focus. I asked a very similar question on here a month or so ago. One of the things that helped me narrow my focus was reading a couple coin books. It helped me realize the types of things I had interest in more than just, hey that's shiny, or I like that one.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I've "narrowed" my collecting for now into 3 areas really. 1st is simply buying coins of my Birth Year - 1981. US and Foreign, I'm also working on this for my 3 kids. The great thing is this is easy and fun to do on a budget. I'm also interested in coins with Wildlife on them but that was too broad so I narrowed it to coins with wildlife Native to my home state of New Hampshire. Lastly, and this one is more costly but the history and events surrounding these coins interests me, is Commemoratives. Both early and Modern, The Columbian Expo coin sparked my interest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jeepfreak81, post: 3080090, member: 93888"]I struggled with this too. I've collected off and on through the years since I was a kid which has left me with about 20 coin folders all of them not quite filled with circulated coins. I also have a handful of other coins but I never had any area of focus. I asked a very similar question on here a month or so ago. One of the things that helped me narrow my focus was reading a couple coin books. It helped me realize the types of things I had interest in more than just, hey that's shiny, or I like that one. So I've "narrowed" my collecting for now into 3 areas really. 1st is simply buying coins of my Birth Year - 1981. US and Foreign, I'm also working on this for my 3 kids. The great thing is this is easy and fun to do on a budget. I'm also interested in coins with Wildlife on them but that was too broad so I narrowed it to coins with wildlife Native to my home state of New Hampshire. Lastly, and this one is more costly but the history and events surrounding these coins interests me, is Commemoratives. Both early and Modern, The Columbian Expo coin sparked my interest.[/QUOTE]
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