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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2422829, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t care what it is, I only believe in collecting things that were not made to be collected.&nbsp; I collected stamps years ago and particularly enjoyed postal history, covers that actually carried news or something in the mail and what we called Philatelic Classics.&nbsp; Most people collected stamps made to be collected even buying stamps that were never even sold in the country they claimed to represent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins are the same. Most collectors have no interest in a cent that could be bought for one cent but seek out slabbed proofs unlike anything ever spent.&nbsp; I collect ancients but define a coin as any coinlike item that ever sold for its face value. </p><p><br /></p><p>My wife collects bells - one made to ring, not ones that say &#039;souvenir of....&#039; on the side.&nbsp; There are hundreds of other things that hold interest for someone.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins will not go away even when the last government stops making them for spending. The collecting hobby will change.&nbsp; None of us really know how it will change but I expect the incorrect assumptions I made when I started in the 1950&#039;s will be matched by another set of changes by the time the youngsters out there are seniors.&nbsp; There was a time that a collection was considered better if it had more different coins not a higher Shelton number average.&nbsp;&nbsp; The hobby as you, or I, practice it may well die but someone will collect in some way so I expect coin collecting will last longer than the opinions we have about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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