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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Omegaraptor, post: 3202470, member: 76105&quot;]I agree that modern collecting is too centric on the number on a label. I am jealous of those who collected before grading services - they know quality better than most of us new collectors do.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find myself focusing more on die varieties than dates, however. I feel like die varieties are where most of the interesting coins are.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/2adb450c-7c4e-418a-a7af-dee183c1a414-jpeg.825458/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/09a31c9b-88ea-4db0-9e18-a69568e7f5f1-jpeg.825459/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was struck as the reverse die was literally falling apart - how cool is that? IMO much more interesting than just collecting by date.</p><p><br /></p><p>But besides varieties, I find world/ancient coins more interesting as there is much more variety, much more history, many coins of different types can be acquired inexpensively, etc. I still like US coins, but I find myself trying to cherrypick varieties far more than acquiring coins by date and mintmark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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