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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Resu Eman, post: 605733, member: 9147&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">This is an interesting question you’ve posed, RickieB. Even more interesting are some of the answers. While reading the posts, I was forced to review my position as a collector and compare it to other aspects. Several things popped up that I didn’t give much thought to before. Am I a collector? Of course. Am I a curator? I like to think that I am. I mean I certainly show my collection to others and answer any questions about it and give advice when asked. What do I want from this collection? Enjoyment, camaraderie, learning/discovering about new aspects of banknotes and history. What does it do for me? It gives me all I want from it. What do I do for it? I try to be someone who helps promote it to those who are interested in it, give information to those who need it, and be as helpful as I can in general.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I think I am perhaps more like the responses that Daggarjon and Drusus gave in my collection habits and styles. I would never do it if I didn’t like it and was able to have fun with it, build on it and learn more about it all the time. While I’ve seen people on forums give up and read about others who are leaving the hobby, I honestly cannot imagine myself going the same route. There is just too much to learn, too many different aspects that the collections can branch out into, etc., for this to ever become boring to me. I am not looking to make money in this venture, but if I could write a book, give paid lectures, or somehow make money off my knowledge, I certainly wouldn’t turn it down. If there was something I could make money on that I felt would hurt the hobby, I simply wouldn’t do it. </font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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