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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoinBlazer, post: 4803081, member: 94776&quot;]We hear countless stories and anecdotes about collecting as a youngster, taking a pause in our late teenage and early adult years, and picking up the hobby once again down the road.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whether it is intended or unconsciously, I’ve reached that point over the last few months. Perhaps COVID-19 has accelerated it, but I am lacking in the strong interest right now of collecting numismatics. If you see my threads, I almost never posted anything in the last few months. I’ve liquidated most of my collection simply because it was sitting there doing nothing. I still have holdings in a few hundred dollars of silver, however I am making considerations to place that in an Roth IRA or Mutual Fund, but that’s besides the point.</p><p>This isn’t goodbye at all. This is simply that moment when it all changes, I started interest in Numismatics the Spring of 8th Grade, and here I am graduated 2020, I used to bring my red book, or a stack of wheat pennies, or a silver dollar EVERYWHERE. I would sit and look at my nickels or dimes while we are at the dinner table, or at the park. It was a true exciting passion, perhaps borderline addiction. But obviously, life hits you, school, future, job, make money, spend money, save money, don’t have a lot of money to spend on old cool looking money. Spending money on the girlfriend doesn’t help either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’d like to think that I’m in a new stage, I’ve collected, bought, traded and sold lots of coins. But now I feel in the mode of simply learning by reading, I still read articles posted here and other numismatic sites, and it still fascinates me just as it always has. But I no longer feel the incurable desire to own all the coins. Sure, I would still buy an Libertas Americana Medal if I could afford one, and I’ll keep all the sentimental coins I own, but the days of countless albums, and boxes of rolls and Slabs upon slabs has ended for now. I’ll probably get myself a numismatic subscription of a magazine but for me, it’s no longer the collecting, but the knowledge that’s the biggest part.&nbsp; Just remember this isn’t goodbye, it’s just a new chapter!</p><p><br /></p><p>Best Regards,</p><p>Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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