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Message:: [QUOTE="Cucumbor, post: 2463692, member: 4298"]Almost the same as Steve here In my 20' I used to be very proud of what I collected then (even though most of it now looks as crap) and tended to show my coins to everyone entering the house, either family or friends. I quickly understood people would get bored within minutes. Having become probably a bit wiser, I now wait for people to ask, which rarely happens, to tell the truth. When it occurs I will show a single tray of 40 coins browsing french History from 14th to 21st century. They usually "talk" to people as they can regognize french rulers as Henri IV, Louis XIV or Napoleon, whose portraits are known of everyone. There are then two attitudes about how people show their interest in coins : "what is it ?" or "how much did that set you back ?"The first group will generaly want to see more, and I can then show some ancients , the second will find those too expensive and, with no perspective of investment premium, quickly distract from them. As for my wife, she's always been very liberal and supportive towards my passion/addiction to coins (see the thread on how she treated me with an owl tet very recently) even though she doesn't have much interest in them. She will occasionnally applause to an acquisition such as an Augustus denarius or a french royal portrait coin. Q[/QUOTE]