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<p>[QUOTE="samclemens3991, post: 24563385, member: 82181"]I am glad you found some material. I don't know if this feedback helps or not. When I first encountered coin collecting, every single pundit and authority stressed that collecting was best represented by forming a matched set of coins. I was only seven, but I found that entire idea revolting and boring. To me that was the same as going to an art show called "The bridge" and finding out it was 87 pictures of the same bridge taken one second apart. For me it would be a better idea to have 87 pictures showing the bridge from shiny new ribbon cutting day then from all angles and at all different times and ending with the rusty </p><p>sagging bridge that has done its service.</p><p>That is why when everyone else was putting matching coins in their blue Lincoln cent holders I was trying to find a coin in every grade from parking lot trash to ultra red mint state. Perhaps just a different view on coin collecting that might appeal to some. James[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="samclemens3991, post: 24563385, member: 82181"]I am glad you found some material. I don't know if this feedback helps or not. When I first encountered coin collecting, every single pundit and authority stressed that collecting was best represented by forming a matched set of coins. I was only seven, but I found that entire idea revolting and boring. To me that was the same as going to an art show called "The bridge" and finding out it was 87 pictures of the same bridge taken one second apart. For me it would be a better idea to have 87 pictures showing the bridge from shiny new ribbon cutting day then from all angles and at all different times and ending with the rusty sagging bridge that has done its service. That is why when everyone else was putting matching coins in their blue Lincoln cent holders I was trying to find a coin in every grade from parking lot trash to ultra red mint state. Perhaps just a different view on coin collecting that might appeal to some. James[/QUOTE]
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