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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1814789, member: 44079&quot;]I think I am similar.&nbsp; I have stuff I collect for me.&nbsp; Often it is stuff durn few folks care about.&nbsp; World War II era US Army Tech Manuals for Sherman and Stuart tanks for instance.&nbsp; Got a shelf of em.&nbsp; Sure, if you have an old Sherman or a Stuart sitting in your barn you like the original manuals, but not too many folks do.&nbsp; So as collecitibles go, those books are a little esoteric.&nbsp; Junk broken pistols of WW1 and earlier vintage.&nbsp; I haunt the shows and the parts sellers until I find the missing parts, then restore them to 100% functionality, find a source of ammo (or fabricate my own), then go shoot them.&nbsp; One took me over 28 years to find the missing parts of, with solid days expended each of those 28 years checking sources .&nbsp; You won&#039;t believe the horror some collectors view actually shooting something rare express.&nbsp; What if another part breaks?&nbsp; Who cares as long as I have fun, besides then I can fiz it again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I regard the old piggy bank and other acquired coins of my youth as stand alone collections, totally separate from completed Whitman books of Mercury dimes purchased complete (had 8 of them once, down to 3 now) and similar purchased pre-assembled collections.&nbsp; Those are investment things. </p><p><br /></p><p>I may enjoy having them, but in truth I much prefer my junk Mercuries and old Liberty and Barber quarters condition AG (called poor condition when I was 8) sitting in a bowl with worn out unreadable dates and possible traces of mint marks.&nbsp; I can touch and clink them to my hearts desire and no one will care.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A small drawstring bag of old gold coins I have randomly purchased through the years and which I shake and clink to my hearts content&nbsp; is, to me, a totally different collection than my small collection of PCGS slabbed gold coins (t&#039;was a lot bigger once, but like I wrote, TG for the other collections).&nbsp; State quarters?&nbsp; I have no interest in them anymore (too many made).&nbsp; Still there is a box containing all 50 (and the territories) in both uncirculated and all the silver proofs too.&nbsp; Some would call that two collections, but to me it will someday be sold as one State quarter collection.&nbsp; Yes, I have a wheat penny book I had painfully been assembling over 50 years, but a few years ago I wimped out and just bought the few missing ones as I realized the odds of getting them in pocket change or even by roll searching had grown a lot slimmer than the odds were when I was 4 and just beginning and memorial pennies were still brand new.&nbsp; The depression era glass piggy bank isn&#039;t rare.&nbsp; Five &amp; Ten cent store merchandise.&nbsp; I have found lots of them on Ebay usually for under $50, so to me it is sentimental only.&nbsp; It sits on my bookcase, and I hope it always will.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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