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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RickieB, post: 601833, member: 2486&quot;]For a while now, (almost a year) I have been watching the number of coin collectors-vs-paper money collectors here at CT. I also belong to another Fourm where PaperMoney is discussed more actively than coins, however, there are only a handful of members that participate. </p><p><br /></p><p>My point here is that while on average, ~ 30 people out of the 18,800 or so members here at CT are actively involved in Paper Money <u>that have collections that we know of.</u> Many of you know that I once had a significant coin collection consisting of &quot;almost the entire Series of AGE&#039;s, ASE&#039;s and APE&#039;s plus many modern proofs of gold and silver and select early US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Early this year I sold almost every coin in my collection to go strictly into Paper Money......I am researching not only engravers of the PM we all want to collect but the people who came before us as well, the pioneers, the famous collections, the value of said collections and as the days linger into months and years I am starting to see the collections of some of the finest collections known being broken down and sold. I suppose everything has a life cycle, including the recognition of our own mortality and having the heart to say its time to let it go. For me, there was something about Mr. Thomas Flynns collection that has inspired me to seek out notes that were sold from his massive collection. I am lucky to have 6 of them at the moment.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen some of your collections grow as well and have noted that a few of you have pieces from the recent Chet Krause collection and the Rickey Collection. I have also seen where Mr. Don Kelly is letting go of some of his personal collection.</p><p>I have had the honor of talking to several of these folks and learning what I can from them...but it is no where enough time to fully appreciate what they have done in their remarkable pursuit of this work!</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about it for a moment before you reply to this thread......why is the ratio so far apart? What is the reason in your mind that the gap is so far spread? </p><p>While I will always have a special interest in coins, the allure of Paper Money has firmly settled within me.....there will never again be in the history of the United States Paper Money, designs and engraving of the by gone times of 1862-1934. </p><p>I now find myself seeking pieces that I know I can not afford and often wonder how these people accquire the 20K-100K + notes? </p><p>Have you ever given thought to this?</p><p><br /></p><p>SO if you have the time or the desire to post your feeling on the collecting Gap between Paper Money and Coins, please do so. I am interested in each of your opinions, your goals, thoughts on your collections as well as others.</p><p><br /></p><p>How will you proceed into your collecting goals, despite the raging tide of economic turmoil -vs- the passion of a collectors desire to obtain the best you can? </p><p>What is your motivation, what is your goal, what is it that will generate more interest in Paper Money to curent coin collectors?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for your remarks in advance.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Regards,</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>RickieB[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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