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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2228414, member: 15588&quot;]Years ago, I completely lost interest in collecting sports cards when different card types started to multiply endlessly... in 1981, to take baseball cards for instance, a single set each year (Topps) suddenly multiplied into 3 (Topps, Fleer, Donruss). That was somewhat manageable, but later it exploded into however many brands exist now - I lost count years ago and every time I look at the state of that hobby I become so overwhelmed my brain melts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m starting to have similar feelings when looking at lists of US and Canadian commems. OVERLOAD! I&#039;d have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to afford &quot;everything&quot; for a single year - it&#039;s too much to even comprehend. Not only that, if I don&#039;t pay attention to coin news on a weekly basis I seem to miss numerous pending releases. Of course, I could just buy what I want, which makes sense, but it&#039;s harder and harder to gauge just what I want in the morass of issues that spew from the mints these days.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was at the Winnipeg mint recently and found myself aghast almost to submission at the overflowing commems in their showroom. Many of them were beautiful but deciding on one or two became an exercise in aggravation and I went into a &quot;too many choices&quot; coma after fifteen brain pounding minutes of browsing. (The mint tour was awesome, by the way - they were minting the colored Canadian flag anniversary coins while I was there.) I did succumb to the &quot;big coin&quot; nickel, though, because I&#039;ve always loved the Canadian beaver nickel (yes, I have animal coin disease). I&#039;m sure it was a lousy buy, but I do really like the pretty shiny thing (side note: a tour guide had a story about an old woman in a wheelchair who toured once and told a filthy joke about the beaver nickel and the Queen which shocked the entire group, but she wouldn&#039;t tell it to me - perhaps that cost extra <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I worry, just like the Coin Talk guys and others here do, that the miasma of releases from the mint may simply cause collector catatonia and bring down the value of numismatics. Though I&#039;m not sure of the exact connection between the modern commems and historical numismatics - would a crash in moderns necessarily affect the classic coins? That&#039;s another whole topic.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now I&#039;ll end my rant with far too many words about mints that release far too many things. Full stop.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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