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<p>[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4190232, member: 15481"]I’m smiling. Not because I think this is stupid, but because I come from a family of general collectors. And not only general coins, but generally collecting. I helped tidying up after one late uncle who was into militaria, old instruments for map making and navigation, birds, minerals, pipes, model building, and generally keeping everything old that he came over, including the 15 old FM radio cabinets of my grandfather. Another uncle is having a hard time getting rid of his 50-60 porcelain tea pots. None of us can let anything go without years of mental preparation. </p><p>I can definitely understand your angle to collecting, but when I consider that there are coins in every shelf and drawer in my house, that my «art collection» is too big for my walls, that old stamps are lying around to be torn and destroyed, that I own more books than I’ve ever read, and that the old radio cabinets ended up with me, I think it’s time for me to find an angle to collecting that doesn’t feel like an anchor weighing me down. It was a great relief to deliver a big box full of silver, cuprio-nickel and copper coins collected by date. Refinement, that’s my Nemesis. </p><p>This is by my bedside. There are «treasures» everywhere. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH]1076083[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>But I’m hijacking OPs thread. Sorry. I hope you will be a happy coin collector and that you will keep sharing your coins here, [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER]![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4190232, member: 15481"]I’m smiling. Not because I think this is stupid, but because I come from a family of general collectors. And not only general coins, but generally collecting. I helped tidying up after one late uncle who was into militaria, old instruments for map making and navigation, birds, minerals, pipes, model building, and generally keeping everything old that he came over, including the 15 old FM radio cabinets of my grandfather. Another uncle is having a hard time getting rid of his 50-60 porcelain tea pots. None of us can let anything go without years of mental preparation. I can definitely understand your angle to collecting, but when I consider that there are coins in every shelf and drawer in my house, that my «art collection» is too big for my walls, that old stamps are lying around to be torn and destroyed, that I own more books than I’ve ever read, and that the old radio cabinets ended up with me, I think it’s time for me to find an angle to collecting that doesn’t feel like an anchor weighing me down. It was a great relief to deliver a big box full of silver, cuprio-nickel and copper coins collected by date. Refinement, that’s my Nemesis. This is by my bedside. There are «treasures» everywhere. :) [ATTACH]1076083[/ATTACH] But I’m hijacking OPs thread. Sorry. I hope you will be a happy coin collector and that you will keep sharing your coins here, [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER]![/QUOTE]
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