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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2844048, member: 15588&quot;]It&#039;s type collecting for me. I enjoy the design variety, date and metal variation too much. I would get bored with focusing on a single series, with the possible exception of those pleasure-center inducing Japanese Meiji Dragons. Collecting important historical dates also fuels my interest and reinforces my readings on various events and epochs. I also enjoy having both 2,000 year old coins and 20 year old coins equally. Recently, I seem fixated on 19th Century American series and picked up both a Seated Quarter and a Half-Cent (in the mail). My desultory interests seem to have no purpose apart from random brain bubbles telling me that &quot;wow! that looks cool!&quot; Although I have recently read up on the American Presidency and was shocked how little I knew of 19th Century Presidents, so I&#039;m thinking that may have catalyzed my current 19th Century US coin hysteria. Now I know that Franklin Pierce (apparently not generally considered a great President) was in the White House when the mint banged out that 1854 Seated Quarter I picked up recently. Plus, I know that when the 1828 Half-Cent I ordered hammered into existence, Andrew Jackson soundly defeated John Quincy Adams for President. These kind of things keep coins alive for me. Without these historical connections coins may hold little fascination for me, honestly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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