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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1360956, member: 112&quot;]How about me ? I don&#039;t own a single coin, except for the ones in my change jar. I&#039;m not a collector at all, haven&#039;t been for 6 years now. But I&#039;d like to think I&#039;m pretty dang serious about coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s something that changes for people. Over 50 years ago when I started collecting I was serious about coins. By the time I was 15 I was hardly giving coins a thought except how I could get my hands on some more so I could spend them on some girl. In my 20&#039;s I was serious again. But all through my life I was never as serious as I have been for the past 20 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess you could say there are several things that can make a person a serious collector. If a guy is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on coins he&#039;s a serious collector. if a guy only collects coins he finds in change or by roll searching, but he&#039;s always doing that, he&#039;s a serious collector. If a guy only buys coins once in a while, but subscribes to various coin magazines, has a numismatic library of sorts, and tries to study and learn as much as he can about coins, he&#039;s a serious collector. The list goes on.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me being a serious collector is a state of mind. You don&#039;t have to own a single coin. You don&#039;t have to spend a lot of money on coins. But coins need to be a part of your life in one way or another. And just like with anything else, there are many varying degrees of serious <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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