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Posted 08/30/2014 3:06 pm
I don't blame you, I don't collect by series, date, mint mark or die state. I find it tedious and rather boring. So instead I collect coins by type, U.S. coins and world coins. If it is a unique type it goes in the collection.
This is nothing against collectors who do so by series or any other thing, it just isn't for me. I am happy when people post their series and I like looking at the pics. And I am genuinely happy when someone is able to get a difficult to find piece for their set. We are all coin collectors so their is some comradely in that sense, and one of the great thing about coin collecting is that you can collect how ever you want to collect. It is a hobby, not a tax form.
One of the most important things to understand is that even with coin collectors, is that there are different types of coin collectors. Every month or someone will post a topic about how one certain way is only proper and then try to relegate the other types of collections to "hoards," "accumulations," "piles" or what ever. Just smile and don't get sucked into the topic.
Some people like to stack silver, some people like to coin roll hunt, some people like to fill albums. I have a small silver stack because for a while that is what I thought coin collecting meant. I have some boxes of copper and a pile of wheat cents because I thought that that was collecting. I have some mint sets, some proofs, and some albums, etc.
It took me a while but I found out that I am more on the historian/numismatist side of the hobby. I like to learn about the countries and the circumstances behind a coin, go to the library and find a book on some ancient country that no one remembers any more, or read about some king who has long been forgotten.
I think you found out that you are not a series collector. My suggestion is try some other things. What I started doing I just buying what ever looked interesting to me. Yes I had a odd collection, but after a while I could begin to see some clear pattens in what I had bought. It is a hobby, you are supposed to enjoy it. :D
This is nothing against collectors who do so by series or any other thing, it just isn't for me. I am happy when people post their series and I like looking at the pics. And I am genuinely happy when someone is able to get a difficult to find piece for their set. We are all coin collectors so their is some comradely in that sense, and one of the great thing about coin collecting is that you can collect how ever you want to collect. It is a hobby, not a tax form.
One of the most important things to understand is that even with coin collectors, is that there are different types of coin collectors. Every month or someone will post a topic about how one certain way is only proper and then try to relegate the other types of collections to "hoards," "accumulations," "piles" or what ever. Just smile and don't get sucked into the topic.
Some people like to stack silver, some people like to coin roll hunt, some people like to fill albums. I have a small silver stack because for a while that is what I thought coin collecting meant. I have some boxes of copper and a pile of wheat cents because I thought that that was collecting. I have some mint sets, some proofs, and some albums, etc.
It took me a while but I found out that I am more on the historian/numismatist side of the hobby. I like to learn about the countries and the circumstances behind a coin, go to the library and find a book on some ancient country that no one remembers any more, or read about some king who has long been forgotten.
I think you found out that you are not a series collector. My suggestion is try some other things. What I started doing I just buying what ever looked interesting to me. Yes I had a odd collection, but after a while I could begin to see some clear pattens in what I had bought. It is a hobby, you are supposed to enjoy it. :D
