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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 111752, member: 68&quot;]There are a lot of we slug collectors having a hoot.&nbsp; While circulation was stripped of anything of much interest back in the mid-&#039;50&#039;s and even the common coins were gone by 1970 there has never been much interest in the slugs that replaced them and the rare slugs circulate alongside the distressingly common slugs.&nbsp; Oh sure, if you collect these you&#039;re just a slug collector but trying to put together complete slut sets might be nearly as much fun as coin collecting.&nbsp; Best of all is that those outside the hobby don&#039;t know they&#039;re slugs so you can still claim to be a coin collector or even a numismatist.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While I specialize in the quarter sized slugs there are still slugs that are the same size as most of the old coins and they&#039;re all fun to collect.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s probably slabbing that has killed slug collecting.&nbsp; When they first started slabbing coins they refused to have anything to do with slugs.&nbsp; Then when they started registering sets they refused to register sets of slugs.&nbsp; Now days they&#039;ll grade and register them but it leaves no inexpensive slugs for new collectors.&nbsp; Where does a newbie get started?&nbsp; What we need is a series of circulating slugs in a convenient size to get people started but this may be little more than a pipedream.&nbsp; Even were it to come to pass there would be those who would point out that they&#039;re still merely slugs and collecting them will never make anyone a numismatist.&nbsp; It&#039;s so ironic that real coin collectors believe that it&#039;s the grading companies which have created all the very high priced slugs when very much the opposite may be true.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m with GDJMSP, these are the good old days.&nbsp; They&#039;re good old days not only because we&#039;ll remember them this way regardless but because there are so many good things going on and so many new people enterring the hobby.&nbsp; They are good old days because we are currently defining the future and the how coins are discussed and traded on the net.&nbsp; They are the good old days because the next generation of collectors are sharpening their teeth and learning what&#039;s necessary to be a numismatist (or a slug collector).&nbsp; These are the good old days because future collectors will look back and see the myriad opportunities to make fantastic collections that most overlooked because they were too close to the trees to see the forest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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