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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Inspector43, post: 24883458, member: 89213&quot;]Here is a post I put out a while back. I think I covers my opinion of the coin and stamp hobbies today.</p><p>2023 is the 75th Anniversary of my active Coin and Stamp collecting. I started in 1948 and have been active ever since.</p><p><br /></p><p>My accumulations include near 90% of all US Stamps up to 2011 when I slowed because of the USPS volume of issues. I stopped getting them directly from the USPS and only collect those I find in the wild. The table below shows why I quit trying to get all issues. The first two lines cover about 50 years each. The others are by decade. It became impossible to keep up with.</p><p><br /></p><p>USPS Stamp Issues</p><p><br /></p><p>1847 to 1899 293</p><p>1900 to 1949 693</p><p>1950 to 1959 152</p><p>1960 to 1969 247</p><p>1970 to 1979 408</p><p>1980 to 1989 643</p><p>1990 to 1999 931</p><p>2000 to 2009 1065</p><p><br /></p><p>In Coins I have all the Silver Dollars (all but three back to 1878), Half Dollars, Dimes and Nickels from 1900 to 2018 and many prior. I have a complete set of the Liberty Nickels and Buffalo Nickels. I am short a few of the Cents and Quarters since they were more difficult to find in circulation. I had the 1900 Lafayette but gave it to my daughter a while back. I had misplaced it and spent three days trying to find it. I know where it is now.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a youngster I got an 1875 S Twenty Cent Piece in change. I gave it to my youngest son a while back.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have all the modern commemorative halves and dollars up to 2018 - silver and clad.</p><p><br /></p><p>So much stuff in the 75 years. I am still a coin collector, but I have slowed down some. I quit getting new stuff from the mint as they have flooded the market with, IMO, junk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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