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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 3956500, member: 83845&quot;]You make some really interesting observations [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] .&nbsp; I don’t have any friends outside CT that collect ancient coins and I have only ever met one CT friend in person.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually enjoy activities that don’t require me to interact with other people which might be one of the reasons I took to studying history, math and physics, reading and coin collecting. Time in a library alone with a book, a coffee and a little round piece of metal for company seems like a perfectly pleasant way to spend free time.&nbsp; I am actually surprised I enjoy talking about coins on CT as much as I do. I have no other online presence.</p><p><br /></p><p>So why do I spend so much time here? To a remarkable degree the people on this site are a great mix of friendly, educational and interesting. I’ve learned a lot from this site. If enough of the people I enjoy talking to left CT and the crowd became more stuffy I would probably leave too. I wouldn’t be friends with someone just because they collect coins but if a group I like being friends with collects coins then great. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do find it interesting to know which of the coins I enjoy are also enjoyed by my friends.&nbsp; The “like” system on CT can be misleading if you’re trying to use it as a gauge of coin desirability. People tend to hit the like button on expensive coins that are well photographed, threads they can contribute to or else it is also common for some to just follow and like specific members.&nbsp; Some great coin threads with desirable examples fall inexplicably into oblivion sometimes if they don’t conform to one of the three above categories. I think the like system is still useful and fun though and I use it often to give feedback when I have little to add.&nbsp; It’s just not a good metric for assuming anything substantive.&nbsp; Well thought out comments from members you trust is a much better metric IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which brings me back to the questions posed in the OP:</p><p><br /></p><p>I have surprisingly enjoyed the coin interaction here on this site with other collectors.&nbsp; With as much as I travel CT is the perfect place for getting the social component of collecting that I didn’t even know I would want before I joined.</p><p><br /></p><p>My wife appreciates my collection. She asks me to tell her about some of my new coins when she is having trouble sleeping because she says it helps her pass out (not even kidding <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).&nbsp; Other friends seem to appreciate how old the coins are but don’t care much for distinctions that make a $100 coin a $1,000 coin unless it is a figure they know... “oh this is Julius Caesar!”</p><p><br /></p><p>I honestly don’t know. I imagine there are probably plenty of the latter but I know on CT there are at least a few of the former. I try to be the former kind of friend and I spend a lot of time reading old threads on this site that have fallen down the list and I have tried to be better about commenting more. There are others on this site that I know are like me and just generally like coins and learning whether we own the coin or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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