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<p>[QUOTE="Skippy Topaz, post: 6711186, member: 76224"]Well, I'm not really an "avid" collector so over the years I would just pick one up here and there.. I got the Washington and Jefferson Fractionals over 20 years ago from a guy named Stanley Morycz (as well as some Large Size Notes) and then for a long time really only collected notes I found in circulation and only got the third 15¢ Grant/Sherman a couple of months ago...</p><p><br /></p><p>The rest of the the Obsoletes I think I got over the last five or six years when I got bitten by the "Obsolete Bug".. I actually never knew they existed (shows you what kind of collector I am..) Fortunately for me, the ones I liked the most weren't all that expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm primarily drawn to notes I find artistically attractive (not really ones that are valuable unless it's beautiful) but don't like getting notes that look too similar, even if they are attractive but I already have one like it. I like variety in my collections (though I do have a couple of similar looking Canal Bank/Mechanics Bank notes) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Skippy Topaz, post: 6711186, member: 76224"]Well, I'm not really an "avid" collector so over the years I would just pick one up here and there.. I got the Washington and Jefferson Fractionals over 20 years ago from a guy named Stanley Morycz (as well as some Large Size Notes) and then for a long time really only collected notes I found in circulation and only got the third 15¢ Grant/Sherman a couple of months ago... The rest of the the Obsoletes I think I got over the last five or six years when I got bitten by the "Obsolete Bug".. I actually never knew they existed (shows you what kind of collector I am..) Fortunately for me, the ones I liked the most weren't all that expensive. I'm primarily drawn to notes I find artistically attractive (not really ones that are valuable unless it's beautiful) but don't like getting notes that look too similar, even if they are attractive but I already have one like it. I like variety in my collections (though I do have a couple of similar looking Canal Bank/Mechanics Bank notes) :)[/QUOTE]
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