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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 1159950, member: 25270&quot;]I have a collecting personality and I&#039;ve always collected different things. When I was a kid I&#039;d pick up cool rocks, bottlecaps, used shotgun shells, seashells and empty cans. I purchased more than 20,000 baseball cards between about age 8 and 14. I always saved any wheat pennies or other older coins that I found, and I got my dad&#039;s old coins from his army days and my grandparents&#039; coins from when they owned a bar. I always put them aside but didn&#039;t really make an effort to buy coins until the last year. Actually what set me off into really getting serious about it was when my girlfriend bought me a Whitman folder for presidential dollars. We had only been dating a month and we didn&#039;t know that much about each other so she got me that along with a few of the dollar coins for Christmas. She was the kind of collector who saves the state quarters and dollar coins but that&#039;s it. Of course, when I had the Whitman folder, I wanted to fill it, and then I wanted to get others and fill those too. Pretty soon I started going to a local coin store to see what they had. At the beginning I was filling gaps like the empty spaces in my Jefferson nickel collection and only spending $20 a visit. Then when I finished the easy ones, I moved on to the more expensive stuff. When you start browsing at the coin store or on eBay, it&#039;s easy to start making compulsive purchases, and then it gets to be that if I haven&#039;t browsed on eBay in a day, I feel like I&#039;m missing out. So it&#039;s partially compulsive behavior. But I really like the history behind the coins. I have a history degree and I like to get historically significant coins - ones with an important ruler on them or from an important time, or coins from former colonies or countries that don&#039;t exist anymore. That&#039;s what got me into foreign coins, which most people in the U.S. don&#039;t seem to care about. I like big coins with a lot of detail like large cents or the old British pennies. I like coins with animals on them or other nice designs. I&#039;ve always liked to possess authentic things with old dates on them, so that&#039;s another factor. So those are all things that attract me to the hobby, but there are also intangibles. I guess I get a surge of endorphin anytime I buy new coins or get some in the mail, and it gets tough to balance out the desire to complete my collections right now with the knowledge that I have to be sensible and not spend too much money. I am a quieter, studious person by nature and I think this is a good hobby for someone like me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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