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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BigsWick, post: 287484, member: 3534&quot;]I began collecting US coins because my step father introduced me to the hobby, and he collected US coins. I can remember the first time he showed me a Morgan dollar. I was only 11 years old, but I was awestruck. His Buffalo nickels and Mercury dimes were nice, but that fat, heavy cartwheel really got my attention.</p><p><br /></p><p>World coinage is cool, no doubt. I&#039;ve had the good fortune to have traveled some during the course of my life. I&#039;ve collected coins from China, South Korea, Egypt, England, Guatemala, Mexico, and Canada. I&#039;d certainly add to my hodgepodge if given the opportunity, but life sometimes gets in the way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d have to say that I find Mexican coinage to be very attractive, much more so than most modern US coinage. Every year I take a fishing trip to the Yucatan and try to find something different to keep. My most beautiful foreign coin is a 1947 Mexican 50 Peso gold piece given to me by my grandfather about a year before he died. I hope to pass it along one day to my son. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t speak for collectors outside of the US because their frame of reference differs from mine. However, I do collect US coinage because it is something to which I can relate as an American. It is familiar. Not only is it more meaningful to me as a US citizen, it is certainly less &quot;remote&quot; than a Greek coin minted hundreds of years ago. Perhaps that, along with the number of collectors in the US, helps drive the prices up as high as they are. I&#039;ll leave it to others to debate whether or not my perception is jaundiced by red, white, and blue tinted lenses.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also like to add that a collector who looks at his acquisitions as an investment rather than as something purely non-profit driven is no less of a collector than someone else who enjoys the hobby simply for pleasure. It is merely the motivation that differs.</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned long ago that the saying &quot;to each his own&quot; has never been more applicable than in our hobby. Collect what makes you happy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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