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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 24563201, member: 31533&quot;]Well, I&#039;ve decided to go with the title &quot;New Directions&quot; and basically do a smorgsebord of things. I am going to bring my Jefferson Nickel collection (the one I have in an older Capitol album and which is almost filled with nickels from change and roll hunting going up to 1964, my Japanese coins, even the one I bought from [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER], a number of my ancients, my Brazilian ones with holes in it (I have 5, and they came with my mother and grandmother in the 1920s when they immigrated to the US from there, evidently they were part of a bracelet at one point), My Icelandic Kingdom collection, and a couple other things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically I am going to start off saying that where you start off in coin collecting is not the only thing to stay with, to start exploring other parts of numismatics and give reasons why I got into the various ones I did. People can find a lot to love in looking for other things than what just got them started in the hobby. Because for a long time, my main focus was modern US coins (1965 on dimes, nickels, quarters mainly).</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;For example the earlier Jefferson nickel collection was because I saw an unusual nice book to hold them and I was coin hunting. The bracelet coins are because they are part of family history, the Japanese ones are because I went to Japan a couple times, liked the coinage and how they really use it and then got a bit historical on finding out about the coins, and the Icelandic Kingdom collection came about because I was looking for coins to photograph and the ones used in this time were really good for that, not too elaborate in design but not too bland to me, and the various ancients came about in other ways. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins are a lot of things and &#039;New Directions&#039; are sometimes found by thinking about what the coin is or means to you or what time period or place or thing you want to do with it comes about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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