How To Make A Better, Smarter Collection.

So, I came across this article the other day and it was great. It is about art collecting but since so many of our members already regard their coins as pocket art it applies exactly the same way to our hobby.

http://www.artbusiness.com/collectpro.html

It talks about the standards, collect what you like and set trends, get to know many dealers, etc etc.

It talked about narrowing your scope (as a lot of us do) but also went into documentation and telling a story.

I bought a trade token off of Chequer and with it came a note about how it belonged to a prominent Halifax collector, that was pretty cool I thought. Also as you can see in this thread I published a wee bit ago I rescued some lapel pins from the garbage (thank you auntie) and together with my cheaply picked up trade tokens they really tell a cool story and are worth (in my opinion) much more then they are separately.

https://goccf.com/t/189471

The story I am trying to tell is how do Maritimers think other people view them. You see as someone who grew up in New Brunswick and Cape Breton Island I know many teenagers will throw parties with rap and hip hop music galore but when outsiders come we are quick to throw on the fiddle music and act a caricature of what they expect.

Sure, we are proud to be Acadian, loyalists, lumberjacks and so forth but not to the degree as depicted in our tourism guides. Heck, I do speak Gaelic after all!

So for me I am telling a store of Atlantic Canada through Material culture, examining the commodity of folk life.

What type of stories are you telling with your coins? Care to share?