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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1812840, member: 57463&quot;]&quot;... other collections...&quot;?&nbsp; What about the piggy bank?&nbsp; My wife falls for Depression Glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clifford Mishler - former editor and publisher at Krause and then president of the ANA - used to have a stump speech he gave at coin clubs. I heard it twice. His thesis was, <b>&quot;Collecting is a gene you do not inherit.&quot;</b>&nbsp; In other words, a collector is a type of person and it does not necessarily run in families. I confess that I am not a collector. I lack the non-gene.&nbsp; But I do enjoy owning things and I have some fountain pens and some oil lamps and some perpetual calendars and some coins and banknotes and stock certificates and some first edition science fiction.&nbsp; When I flew, I bought flight manuals and related books from before World War Two.&nbsp; I found it historically interesting - fascinating really - to find a boy&#039;s adventure book from 1909 involving an aeroplane. </p><p><br /></p><p>But numismatics satisfies a lot of needs. I have scientists and mathematicians, music and musicians, poets and presses, philosophers, and Dungeons &amp; Dragons...</p><p><br /></p><p>But I do not have - or even pursue - a complete set of anything, hence, I am not a collector.&nbsp; You mentioned the Mercury Dimes. I almost filled a Whitman from a coin dealer&#039;s bags of Circ Mercs. When it came to the 1916-D, I quit: no challenge. Any time I want one, I can go to any store or show and throw down money for the grade. Why bother?&nbsp; The completeness test fails for me. It&#039;s personal.&nbsp; So, instead of actually collecting, I write about the collectibles and the collectors who pursue them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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