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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 725462, member: 4552"]And that is exactly the truth. A collector of anything is an individual that accumulates similar items. There are no laws saying a collector has to have any idea of an items value, history, product material, etc. I suspect that even the term Numismatist is vague when it comes to that. </p><p>If you think about it there are little kids that collect coins. There are really old people that collect coins. Possibly even some animals like Ravens collect coins. So be it that they are all coin collectors. </p><p>Don't let it get to you. There are lots of people like that where they once collected Beanie Babies and some have massive collections of those too. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Thinking about what you said reminds me of someone I go to breakfast with. A group of us old people meet at a restaurant in the mornings. I've made it clear I collect coins. One of the individuals owns a company and has money to burn. So now he too hits a pawn shop every day and buys anything they have. He then asks me if it is worth anything. He too considers himself now a coin collector. So be it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 725462, member: 4552"]And that is exactly the truth. A collector of anything is an individual that accumulates similar items. There are no laws saying a collector has to have any idea of an items value, history, product material, etc. I suspect that even the term Numismatist is vague when it comes to that. If you think about it there are little kids that collect coins. There are really old people that collect coins. Possibly even some animals like Ravens collect coins. So be it that they are all coin collectors. Don't let it get to you. There are lots of people like that where they once collected Beanie Babies and some have massive collections of those too. :rolleyes: Thinking about what you said reminds me of someone I go to breakfast with. A group of us old people meet at a restaurant in the mornings. I've made it clear I collect coins. One of the individuals owns a company and has money to burn. So now he too hits a pawn shop every day and buys anything they have. He then asks me if it is worth anything. He too considers himself now a coin collector. So be it.[/QUOTE]
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