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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kountryken, post: 5397540, member: 89798&quot;]Since this has been brought back to life, I&#039;ll introduce myself. I&#039;m a coin collector. Actually, from reading an earlier post, I learned that I&#039;m a &quot;hobby&quot; coin collector. I collect &quot;for the fun of it&quot;. It&#039;s a hobby. I don&#039;t expect to make money. I expect to enjoy my hobby. I collect, regular issued, circulated U.S. coins. I like coins that have traveled. So, I like raw coins. But, I am very glad that there are some of you that like, and &quot;collect&quot; slabbed coins. I love history, and like to see it preserved. I see slabbed, uncirculated coins doing that, so I thank you. But, they&#039;re not my focus, nor would my &quot;budget&quot; (which I don&#039;t even have) support them being my focus, lol. I buy a coin because:</p><p>1. I don&#039;t have one like it, for my type collection.</p><p>2. It fills a space in one of my date/mint collections.</p><p>3. It just &quot;catches my eye&quot;.</p><p>4. And, most importantly, I just happen to have the money to spare, at the time.</p><p>I may be unique, or, at least one of just a few coin collectors that would prefer to have an 1877 IHC in AG3 (which I have) and it complete my IHC collection (which it does), than to have one UNC., and no IHC collection. When I find a coin in better condition than one I have, and I&#039;m not looking for anything specific at the time, and I have the money, I will upgrade. But, if I never upgrade any, I&#039;m happy with my coins, because they complete (or fill a space in) my collection(s). And, the date and mint mark are legible on all of them (I actually have very few AG&#039;s, but many G-VG-F).</p><p>Currently complete: Indian Head Cents, Lincoln Head Cents (wheat back), Buffalo Nickels, Jefferson Nickels (thru 1980&#039;s), Mercury Dimes, and Roosevelt Dimes (thru 1980&#039;s).</p><p>I started collecting in 1962 and sold almost everything in late 1990&#039;s. A few years ago, my interest in coin collecting returned, big time! So, I&#039;ve started again. CT&#039;s (AWESOME) members have even expanded my coin interest to include a few ancients. But, except for a few, I don&#039;t know what I&#039;ve collected, lol. But, I&#039;m trying to learn, and the combined knowledge among the CT members, I believe, is second to none! I post very little, read all the posts I can, hoping some of what I&#039;m reading gets through my hard head, lol.</p><p>I would say that I&#039;ve retired, but I just changed bosses (my wife), and hours of work (all day, all night, whatever it takes, lol). I&#039;m not rich, but I&#039;m extremely blessed. I&#039;ve lived in Louisiana, except for a couple of years with Uncle Sam, about 140 miles south of Shreveport. Now that I&#039;ve told you where I live, I guess I need to keep the coffee pot ready, for all of you that stop by to say &quot;hi&quot;! Okay, nobody is still reading this far, but, just in case you are, I love CT, which means you! Thank you for many hours of enjoyment and priceless information that you&#039;ve shared in your posts. I look forward to what will be revealed tomorrow.</p><p>Kenneth[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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