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Message:: [QUOTE="sylvester, post: 5040, member: 708"]Basically then i guess i'm one of these elitist collectors?  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and that's at the risk of getting shot. But i think you'll find that unlike the US where a good number of the collectors are seemingly collecting from change. On this side of the pond you can't really do that as everything in circulation is very boring, and not very old, there is very very little variety, infact you could just spend a few months here and you'll get practically everything that's going, even 1988 £1 coins if you look hard enough. I guess that's also another reason why collecting is a much smaller force here than it is in the US. Most people get into collecting by shifting up from change searching, but that's not really what happens here, unless you like commemoratives which are usually sold rather than circulated. I think people get into collecting here, not because of what they find in circulation but because they happen to find a boxful of old predecimal coins, come to think of it, that's how i got into it as well. If it hadn't been for that i'd have never been in the hobby at all. It's only the old ones that created that spark, that then lead to a brief period of hauling shiny coins out of circ. But i pretty much went straight onto buying them from shops.[/QUOTE]