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Message:: [QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8216121, member: 110226"]I think it just a process of time plus experience, and maturity, and luck (or lack thereof) that moves us in different directions when it comes to collecting and just about everything else in life. When I was young (ah, Jethro Tull) my natural focus was on US coinage.  When I was really young an uncle gave me a box of pennies, that was the start.  My dad, a music teacher, had juke boxes as a sideline.  So, we would count the nickels, dimes and quarters collected from the boxes.  I never kept any; the money was needed for other necessities. Well, by the time I was in college, a friend of mine showed me a Mexico gold 50 pesos, 1947 (the restrike year).  It was the most beautiful coin I ever saw, aside from the Saint Gaudens $20 gold coin.  So, I finally set aside some of the money in 1977 I earned working at Ford in that summer, and bought one, and a Mexican $20 gold coin (Aztec Calendar Stone coin).  Both coins are long gone, but they did set the direction for me in terms of collecting, although I did start with US coinage and, yes, even some "limited edition" coins.  But I never regretted that start.  It's all an evolving process as I see it. Oddly, I still have the receipts for the two Mexican gold coins, found in the back of a 1974 Red Book that's been in the garage for years. [ATTACH=full]1442267[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]