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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2661723, member: 112&quot;]I was never really a set collector myself let alone a variety guy. For me, I had to like a coin to want to add it to my collection. There had to be something special about it, something different, that appealed to me. And I don&#039;t mean special or different as in a different variety kind of way, but rather in a visual way. Something that you saw immediately and jumped up and slapped ya in the face kind of way. And with varieties, well in many if not most cases you can&#039;t even see it without benefit of a loupe. So for me, that just leaves &#039;em out.</p><p><br /></p><p>All the same I understand the concept and why it appeals to some people, it&#039;s a chocolate and vanilla thing. And I think mostly they are those who are driven by the idea of collecting sets. It&#039;s the idea of having complete sets that appeals to them, as opposed to having individual coins. And that&#039;s where the varieties come in, for to have a complete set, well you gotta have the varieties or the set isn&#039;t complete.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess you could say it&#039;s a goal, something to work towards, and in the end to have something that few if any ever have. And that adds a sense of accomplishment to the equation, and that adds what can only be called bragging rights. To do something, to accomplish something, that very few, if any, have ever done. And by doing that, that makes them, the collector themselves, special. </p><p><br /></p><p>So in the end I guess that&#039;s it, the desire to be special, to be set apart from everybody else, or at least almost everybody else. And I get that part, I really do, I think everybody gets it really for just about everybody wants to be special in some kind of way. I myself once set out to be the first and only person to ever collect a complete date set of Netherlands ducats. A task that I knew from the get-go was an impossible task for they had been continuously minted for over 400 years. And for me that was it, for here was a coin that in and of itself was special in so very many ways, and few even knew that much about them. And on top of that I was trying to do something that no one had ever done, no one had ever even tried to my knowledge.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end I never made it of course, I quit collecting, completely. But I got closer than just about anybody else ever had, excepting maybe a couple of museums, before I quit collecting. And that goal, that desire was replaced by something else because once you have a desire like that, well, it&#039;s kinda hard to do without it. And the new goal became writing, or helping to write, to first definitive books on Netherlands ducats. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that goal is not completed yet either, but it&#039;s on it&#039;s way. Volume I was published in the fall of 2015, and Volume II is in the works. III, and probably IV, will come after that. Now all I have to do is live long enough to actually see it completed <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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