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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1903276, member: 56859&quot;]I didn&#039;t see it coming.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was just being a good daughter, helping Mom make a sensible disposition of her father&#039;s hoard of old US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Sure, I&#039;ll come home and we can load them up and take them to the local coin shop or maybe drive them up to Heritage.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Maybe I should sort them first, get a book, and make sure you&#039;re not being taken advantage of.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Hang on, Mom.&nbsp; I think I should spend more time with these.&nbsp; Maybe there&#039;s a 3-legger hidden in the 31 pounds of buffalo nickels.&nbsp; Or a 1916-D Mercury dime.&nbsp; Or some random coin with a microscopically evident desirable feature.&nbsp; Apparently such things are very desirable to some nut cases.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Sorry I didn&#039;t finish up on this trip.&nbsp; Perhaps I&#039;d better ship them all to my house where I can more diligently study them&quot; (all 200 lbs)</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I&#039;d better buy more books.&nbsp; And an USB microscope.&nbsp; Yeah.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Maybe I should join PCGS and NGC to gain access to all of their resources.&nbsp; And coupons for slabbing.&nbsp; Yeah.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Maybe there are some coin forums where I can learn more about them.&nbsp; Wouldn&#039;t want to accidentally let go of a rarity.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i>(six months later)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Mom, I feel bad that I didn&#039;t sell your coins when you wanted to.&nbsp; Why don&#039;t I just buy them from you? (please please please)&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i>(six months later; I&#039;m a coin forum addict and have sold off only 1/100th of the hoard)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Whoa, what&#039;s <i>that</i>?&nbsp; You can find or buy coins that are thousands of years old?&nbsp; No way!&nbsp;&nbsp; They must cost a fortune!&nbsp; It must take forever to learn about them!&nbsp;&nbsp; No thank you.&nbsp; Not interested.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I can buy uncleaned ancient coins for a few bucks a piece?&nbsp; Get.&nbsp; Out!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;These uncleaned coins are not good enough.&nbsp; I want one with pretty features.&nbsp; Maybe a nice Greek coin.&nbsp; Just one.&nbsp; Everyone should have a nice ancient coin, right?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Oh my God, I can&#039;t believe I spent hundreds of dollars on a coin!&nbsp; Coins are something you get in change!&nbsp; What was I thinking?!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Hey everyone, check out my Corinth stater!&nbsp; Isn&#039;t it beautiful?</p><p><br /></p><p>(ten months and hundreds of coins later)</p><p><br /></p><p>Dear God.&nbsp; I&#039;ve become a… a <i>collector</i>.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t mean to.&nbsp; I swear.&nbsp; Collectors are weirdos, people who have no life and compensate by becoming totally absorbed in something inconsequential, elevating the most minute details to grandiose proportions.&nbsp; People to be ridiculed.&nbsp; And now I&#039;m one.</p><p><br /></p><p>This leads to a very important question.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Does this mean I have to stop making fun of people who collect Hummel figurines?</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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