Why Do We Collect Coins?

I would say a little bit of everything listed for some. For me right now the joy in collecting is being able to hold a piece of history and once in awhile I try to imagine what this coin has been through and who has held it over the 100+years. That in itself makes the hobby worthwhile,for me at least. Then if you can trace a coins pedigree back some,that makes it even more interesting.

First, I unlocked the poll. No sense having a poll if no one can vote.

Second, I moved it to a more appropriate forum.

to the Community!

I voted '' for the fun of it ''. I love U.S. coins but lately it's becoming an obsession with me, like an addiction I guess. oh well my 2nd choice would have been ''to hand down to my children ''

Do we have to vote for only one of the choices?

It is just the attempt to fill an Album.

Fun / History /with a small eye towards possible investment in certain cases.

For me it started out as a fascination of the designs on the old coins and the reasons why the mintages varied from year to year. One learns a lot about the economic history a country through the mintages of its coins. Then it became a challenge to fill a folder of Barber, Mercury, and Roosevelt dimes, albums of Washington quarters, Franklin halves and a type set of the classic commemoratives. Now it is mostly for the thrill of finding that certain coin for a type set or to fill a no longer in production coin holder.

I like the older Capital Plastics holders as they have none or very little of what I consider personally modern mint made garbage but, that is my opinion and you have the right to accept or reject it.

What post 1964 coins I have are in rare obsolete Capital Plastics holders and it is the rarity of the holder itself is why I bought it not because I actively collect the ugly coins it was made for and as long as I have it then fill it. Something different than plugging dozens/hundreds of the same looking coins with different dates into multiple folders or albums.