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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 5519809, member: 96746&quot;]The world is your oyster. The beauty of numismatics is that you can collect what you like and there is no right or wrong. The key is collecting what you like rather than treating every purchase as an investment.</p><p><br /></p><p>The recent big surge in interest in the UK amongst the public started with the Olympics series of 50p coins. Some of those will migrate to older coins, while some will eventually spend them. Every area has someone who specialises in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I used to collect shillings and halfpennies as denominations because a close friend collected pennies and halfcrowns and his pockets were deeper than mine. However, this created a problem for those pieces that were outside the collecting remit, but rather attractive. Eventually I got fed up looking at the serried ranks of mint state, but frequently almost identical coins other than the date. I then moved to a collection that was as eclectic as possible covering anything and everything about British numismatics from Celtic, through Roman to the present day. There are no rules.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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