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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3956858, member: 96864&quot;]Aside from some friends who I&#039;ve successfully encouraged to pull silver and other interesting coins from circulation only 1 has started actively collecting, and his specialty is uncirculated Morgan Dollar varieties. I&#039;ve given him some Greek and Roman silver and bronze but we&#039;ll see if anything germinates. We&#039;re all in our early 30s though so there is plenty of time for them to catch up.</p><p><br /></p><p>My father and grandfather got me into collecting US coins, and while my father finds the ancient coins and antiquities fascinating he prefers to call me up and enjoy the hobby vicariously through my tales of conquest and lucky good deals, only actively collecting a few pieces of aesthetic or historical interest with the primary focus being on completing or improving the US collections. I still like modern stuff though so we have a blast scrutinizing rolls/bags for oddball older coins or errors/varieties together.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>With age and observation I&#039;ve come to tolerate the attention-seeking collectors who seem to live for the opportunity to share their acquisitions with the whole world and who would almost undoubtedly not collect anything if they had no audience. No one in particular here comes to mind but I&#039;ve seen it in other hobbies and forums I participate in. I didn&#039;t understand how vastly different people are when younger but now know that it is a function of hardwired personality differences, with those goofy touchy-feely extrovert types just being normal examples of a personality type instead of exhibiting some kind of malignant interpersonal pathology unique to the individual. That said, some archetypal personality types are themselves malignant and just naturally excruciating to interact with! It&#039;s not necessarily the case that an individual is &quot;bad&quot; and personally responsible for being unbearable, often they unfortunately were just &quot;born that way&quot;. It&#039;s not really their fault that they totally suck to be around, but that doesn&#039;t mean I have to like them! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hundreds of coins and antiquities have been acquired since last sharing anything here, some quite noteworthy in my opinion including rarities (scarcities?) from Phlius in Phliasia and a sweet sling bullet inscribed with the name of Athenion of 2nd Servile War fame bought for a song. No need to plaster pics everywhere and let the world know about it all to thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the stuff though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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