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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2176228, member: 27832&quot;]To get serious for a moment:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Every collector&quot; is simply too broad. Even leaving out foreign or ancient coins, most collectors find some series uninteresting or unattainable. (I&#039;d <i>love</i> to start a pattern collection, but the ones I want are out of the question.)</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was starting out as a small child, I wanted a wheat cent, a Buffalo nickel, a Mercury dime, and so on -- denominations I was familiar with, but in different designs. I think a lot of collectors start out the same way. That&#039;s a reasonable goal, and attainable for most collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later, I wanted obsolete denominations -- two-cent, three-cent, twenty-cent, and so on. Here, we&#039;re already getting into more money than a small child could easily spend, but many adults can manage it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does every collector need any of these, though? Of course not. You could spend years just working on <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/alltimeset.aspx?s=49171&amp;utm_source=pepperjam&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=43737" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/alltimeset.aspx?s=49171&amp;utm_source=pepperjam&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=43737" rel="nofollow">one date set</a>, or a <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=770&amp;utm_source=pepperjam&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=43737" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=770&amp;utm_source=pepperjam&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=43737" rel="nofollow">grading set for one coin</a> (although <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/illini420.19423/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/illini420.19423/">who would do a thing like that</a>?). Or you could be a Morgan collector, or a Lincoln collector... anything that makes you happy. Heck, you could go emo and specialize in coins that make you <i>un</i>happy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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