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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ErrorHunter43, post: 2017136, member: 54353&quot;]My interest in coin collecting began only a few years ago after the death of my grandmother. She was a supreme hoarder and it took my father and I months to clean out her old house before being sold. Amid all of the clothes, purses, books, newspapers and expired canned food I found a few prescription pill bottles full of change which my father showed no interest in and told me to keep. One night I opened the pill bottles and at first glance thought I was looking at foreign coins; then on closer examination I saw that they were all American and were very old. What I had was several pill bottles full of nearly uncirculated V Nickels, Mercury Dimes, and Standing Liberty Quarters. Where most 20-something college students would quickly hawk them at the nearest pawn shop, I instead became instantly fascinated with them and over the next few years amassed a collection of&nbsp; error coins, old and error paper money, international currency, tax tokens, ancient coins, and anything else pertaining to Numismatics (a lot of OCD and genetically inherited hoarding coming into play here). </p><p><br /></p><p>Very soon, I began to see that my collection had no real goal or purpose and resembled a huge blob of random crap. So I began to think and came to a conclusion on my collecting: I would no longer collect anything that I could not touch. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, I began repurposing my collection by selling the vast majority of it on eBay and gifting a few of the pieces to a coworker who&#039;s young daughter is interested in coin collecting. I used the new funds from the sales to purchase a large amount of circulated silver coins (mostly Morgan dollars and Standing Liberty Quarters). </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, my collection only consists of circulated silver coinage (in one safe), and another safe devoted to V Nickels and Eisenhower Dollars (probably my OCD, but something about V Nickels and Ike&#039;s is just beautiful to me). I have no interest in Mint Condition specimens or proofs because they cannot be touched or else their value would be at risk. I now only enjoy coins that I can take out, hold, and admire for their artistic and historical beauty. This being said, I would much prefer a scratched up and dinged Gold Half Eagle than a pristine uncirculated specimen. </p><p><br /></p><p>So in my own way, I now feel that I am collecting beauty and history in it&#039;s filthy and human-handled form, not a random collection of &quot;items&quot; that I had before. </p><p><br /></p><p>What is the purpose of your collection? Do you prefer the coins that you cannot touch over those that you can? What is our philosophy behind it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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