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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3304162, member: 19463&quot;]I agree that this is what killed collecting from circulation but that has changed.&nbsp; I collected from circulation starting in the mid 1950&#039;s when we found mostly Lincoln cents and Jefferson nickels.&nbsp; If I wanted to tie up big money, I could take Walking Liberty halves.&nbsp; In 1959, none of those common circulation coins were over 50 years old.&nbsp; Today in 2019, fifty years is 1969 or after the final end of silver.&nbsp; It is nothing to find a 1938 nickel.&nbsp; There are a massive number of quarter issues now so what there is to collect is massive compared to what I had fifty years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>The difference is that no one told me that my coins from circulation were worthless because they were not perfect.&nbsp; I still have a few coins I pulled from circulation that were prizes even if the dates were hard to read with certainty.&nbsp; We collectors ruined the hobby for kids by telling them the only way to get a collectible quarter is to pay someone a dollar for it.&nbsp; If a kid in 1959 put coins in a folder, we called it savings but now we tell them they need to put it in a bank account paying 0.1% or to invest it in bullion rounds.&nbsp; I suppose I could have put those 500 coins in my collection to work for me back then, but I enjoyed them and the fact that at any time I could take one out and get the cent(s) I paid (face value) with no loss of principle.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not regret converting to ancients all those years ago and I have learned a lot about the coins and the cultures that produced them that outvalues the coins themselves.&nbsp; What I regret is the way we killed the concept of collecting from circulation that might have provided a new crop of kid collectors to discover ancients in 2030 and beyond.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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