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Message:: [QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 16115230, member: 110226"]Yes, for US and modern world coinage (die press produced), one is mostly limited to collecting varieties, some major, but most pretty minor, such as double punched date numerals. When I began collecting coins in 1979 with US coinage as my focus, it was primarily on silver dollars (gold was way out of my league).  The VAM and Wayne Miller's varieties for Morgan dollars were of great interest to me, initially, but that waned fairly quickly.  I just got burned out by the focus on not only the innumerable varieties, but also the emphasis on proof-like fields and cameo effects.  They are beautiful in their own right, for sure, but this pursuit was just not my cup of tea. I've had a life long interest in history, not only US, but world and ancient as well.  So, it was a fairly easy to move from US coinage to world and ancient coinage.  The ability to collect coins from history-shaping periods, rulers and empires, to hold an Athenian owl in hand dating back to the age of Pericles, the Athenian "Golden Age", or a crown or half crown of Charles I, produced during the English Civil War, has almost limitless personal appeal and pleasure, not only in the physical presence of these coins, but also in the ongoing pursuit of knowledge and understanding of human civilization.  The past does indeed inform the present. [ATTACH=full]1533989[/ATTACH] I still have some US coins, but as "type" examples only.[/QUOTE]