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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2062007, member: 112&quot;]Boy, don&#039;t know where to start with this. As a child I did what most probably do, I filled holes in the old blue Whitman folders. That lasted a few years, but before I reached my teens it was coins of higher quality that held my interest. And it was US coins of course. I had exposure to world coins even at the very beginning as my grandfather, who was my teacher, collected world coins. But I had no interest in them back then. That period lasted about 40 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>But when I saw that the US coin market was about to explode and that prices which were already high in my opinion would be much higher, thus making more difficult for me to acquire more high quality coins, I began to explore other areas. And my interest quickly changed to world coinage, much older coinage that predated the founding of the US. And I quickly immersed myself into the study of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ending up selling my entire US collection and focusing only on world coinage. And I was doomed from the beginning because the thing that caught my eye was world gold. But when you compare coins like this with designs like this - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]380279[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380280[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380281[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Or this - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]380282[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380283[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>to US coins - especially when they held 10, 100 times the history, stories that made the stories of US coins pale by comparison, and yet a fraction of the cost of US coins -&nbsp; well, how could anyone help but be doomed !</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that&#039;s what I call evolution <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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