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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SanClem, post: 2520523, member: 81964&quot;]I&#039;m new here so I&#039;ll (try to) be brief. I wanted to add some precious metals to our portfolio, but couldn&#039;t get excited about ingots, so I bought bought bulk Morgan dollars instead. Rather than being all 1921, as advertised, there were actually many dates and mintmarks, and many coins appeared to be in nice condition. I bought a grading book to see. Some coins were worth preserving so I bought flips. I needed some place to store the flips, so I bought a box, then an album, but there were some holes... you can see where this is going, it&#039;s the Goldfish Story except with coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward years and I&#039;m peering down my stereo microscope worrying if my newest purchase is actually VAM 11 or VAM 74 or whatever when it suddenly struck me. Who cares! They&#039;re microscopic differences. </p><p><br /></p><p>After that it all unwound. Soon I had the thought that an 1893-S only differs from one letter from 1893-O. Who cares. A bit later and an 1880 only differs from one digit from 1881. Who cares. This Seated Liberty has drapery this one doesn&#039;t. Who cares. Eventually it got to a Barber dime is a Barber quarter is a Barber half. Who cares. I was done. I boxed everything up and shut the closet door.</p><p><br /></p><p>That lasted a few months. I was bored and somehow ended up on VCoins (that site should come with a Surgeon General warning about being addictive) and I saw a specific Attica Owl. It spoke to me (not literally, that would be crazy, my had dog previously warned me about listening to coins). I researched it. It was impossibly cheap for the amount of history it represented. After years chasing identical coins that differed only by a single die break or bag mark the idea of a 2500 year old, unique, beautiful owl that I. Could. Touch. was too much. I bought it. It was awesome to hold and admire. But it was just one coin. I didn&#039;t want it to get lonely, so I got it a turtle from the same island to keep it company. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since that day it&#039;s been a Goldfish Story with ancients, and I&#039;m loving every minute of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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