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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2796410, member: 44316"]Doug is wise. Coin collecting is a hobby of the mind and your collection will please you, or not, depending upon what is in your mind. What is in it depends upon how you fill it. Some of us are old enough (pre-internet) to have collected essentially alone, with very little contact with other collectors. We read books (coins and history) and decided what we liked considering the cost and created collections that pleased ourselves. There was no worry about "Like"s on CoinTalk. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the need for books is much reduced and many CoinTalk members get along with only web resources. Now, we see coins others like every day. But years of CoinTalk posts (you could go back and read old posts; it would be illuminating) show a very wide variety of interests and financial commitments. I am pleased to be able to say that members march to their own drummers. </p><p><br /></p><p>The are many collector's sites with links to other sites they found interesting and informative. Here is my site of links to other ancient-coin sites. </p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/sitelinks.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/sitelinks.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/sitelinks.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2796410, member: 44316"]Doug is wise. Coin collecting is a hobby of the mind and your collection will please you, or not, depending upon what is in your mind. What is in it depends upon how you fill it. Some of us are old enough (pre-internet) to have collected essentially alone, with very little contact with other collectors. We read books (coins and history) and decided what we liked considering the cost and created collections that pleased ourselves. There was no worry about "Like"s on CoinTalk. Now, the need for books is much reduced and many CoinTalk members get along with only web resources. Now, we see coins others like every day. But years of CoinTalk posts (you could go back and read old posts; it would be illuminating) show a very wide variety of interests and financial commitments. I am pleased to be able to say that members march to their own drummers. The are many collector's sites with links to other sites they found interesting and informative. Here is my site of links to other ancient-coin sites. [url]http://augustuscoins.com/ed/sitelinks.html[/url][/QUOTE]
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