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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzjamesHorse, post: 2111821, member: 73793&quot;]I think there are two ways to collect.</p><p>I collect Stamps...thats my thing...my field of expertise...accumulating knowledge over 50 years and losing all sense of enjoyment.</p><p>It is not enjoyable. It is an obsession.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I &quot;collect&quot; (possibly too strong a word) other things from the perspective of nostalgia...bubblegum cards, cigarette cards, phonecards, toy soldiers.</p><p>I would have said that &quot;coins&quot; fell into that category but its probably only in the last week or so that I would really admit to myself that I am a Coin Collector.</p><p>Of course I lack decades of accumulated knowledge.</p><p>And yet I think if I can confine myself to the limits of enjoyment....cheap circulated coins of Ireland and Britain (the coins that would have been in my pocket for over five decades). and USA (from a sense of curiosity).</p><p>I just read last night that effectively only 1c 5c 10c 25c coins circulate in USA. Higher value coins (I am told) have limited circulation.....and while older coins within that range are difficult, it doesnt seem impossible to enjoy a hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I say Stamps....to me...might be Primary. But the more I know, the less enjoyable it seems.</p><p>Coins are ....to me....secondary....but the less I know, the more enjoyable it seems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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