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<p>[QUOTE="xlrcable, post: 2666570, member: 41288"]It's slightly depressing, but for me the issue takes care of itself because I actually don't know anyone else who'd be interested in my collecting if I told them about it. This includes family, who simply haven't noticed that it's more than a very casual interest, or asked what's in those boxes. (Low value collector here - if we were robbed I have a guitar that I'd miss more than the coins, and there's no use keeping <i>that</i> at the bank.) And yeah, this is a little like leading a creepy double life - but come on, they're coins, not dead bodies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like the OP, I've thought of publishing an article or two - in my case limited to the very few, very narrow subjects about which I flatter myself that I actually know something. Since I'm not concerned about "credit" I suppose I'd just hang them out on a web page or blog with the attribution "by xlrcable." Nowadays a lot of us have two identities anyway, one online and one off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="xlrcable, post: 2666570, member: 41288"]It's slightly depressing, but for me the issue takes care of itself because I actually don't know anyone else who'd be interested in my collecting if I told them about it. This includes family, who simply haven't noticed that it's more than a very casual interest, or asked what's in those boxes. (Low value collector here - if we were robbed I have a guitar that I'd miss more than the coins, and there's no use keeping [I]that[/I] at the bank.) And yeah, this is a little like leading a creepy double life - but come on, they're coins, not dead bodies. Like the OP, I've thought of publishing an article or two - in my case limited to the very few, very narrow subjects about which I flatter myself that I actually know something. Since I'm not concerned about "credit" I suppose I'd just hang them out on a web page or blog with the attribution "by xlrcable." Nowadays a lot of us have two identities anyway, one online and one off.[/QUOTE]
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