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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;68KennedyHalf, post: 788469, member: 22306&quot;]I&#039;ve been compiling a series of year sets after not having taken part in the hobby since childhood, and I&#039;ve been surprised at how enjoyable it&#039;s been. My childhood collection was very small -- just the Wheaties and older Jeffs I managed to find in circulation, and the 1918 Wheatie my grandfather gave me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Certain coins&nbsp; that I admired as a kid but never owned have been dazzling to see up close -- like Mercury Dimes, which I always thought of as the coolest. </p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s been really fun, though, is discovering new favorites. I thought the Standing Liberty Quarter looked good in photos I&#039;d seen, but somehow I have a new appreciation for it now that I can see it in person. The one I have is a 1920-S described as being in EF-40 condition, and I really notice Liberty&#039;s chain mail in a way I&#039;m not sure I had before. The shield, too. And I think the eagle on the reverse might be my favorite of all the eagles I&#039;ve seen on coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also love the IHC all of a sudden now that I own two of them. Profoundly simple and elegant, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most surprising has been my reaction to the Barber Half. The Barber series never did anything for me in all the examples I&#039;d seen in print and online. I bought two in VG condition, and they actually seem pretty nice. I&#039;m not sure why. I think the eagle on the back is well done, and there&#039;s just something dignified about the coin. I&#039;m a fan of halves in general, because of the size, so maybe that has something to do with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there&#039;s the Morgan. I have an 1890 and a 1900-O, and again, it seems like the photos I&#039;ve seen, well-taken though many have been, don&#039;t do it justice. Just really a beautiful design. And the heft of it; it really is too bad people found the large dollar coin such a hassle. I personally think it&#039;d be easier, to take a couple of dollar coins out of my pocket than to reach into my back pocket for my wallet, open it, take out a bill, etc. But maybe that&#039;s just me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Apologies for not including photos here. I&#039;m in the process of getting a new camera, and even when I do it may be a while before I feel competent enough to display pictures on CT. I tried scanning my 1900 Morgan, but it just ended up looking weird; it&#039;s just as well that I couldn&#039;t enlarge the images on my profile page. :goof:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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