Questions For Collectors Of Modern Coins

I enjoy the search for the higher quality modern coins and it doesn't cost me much money to do it. So I wonder if it's my version of games that other people play on their phones or puzzles they work in the paper. It's engaging and fun for me. For that reason I don't care what other people say. I like my game.

Exactly what I was going to say.
This is a hobby. Simple and just that, a hobby. I'm not even sure why anyone would comment on someone's hobby. What about those that collect beer cans, Beanie Babies, Hot Wheel cars, Stamps, Barbie dolls and on and on and on. What about the people that collect rocks? A hobby is just that, a hobby. Next time someone makes such stupid comments, just walk away. Can't argue with someone with a monkey's mentality.

with Moxking, Just Carl and Jbuck.

That's kinda across the board on any topic of conversation!

People should collect what they want to collect regardless of the potential for increasing or decreasing value.

People should be aware that all moderns aren't as "common as dirt" as modern bashers would have us believe. And they are getting scarcer every day because so few people are collecting them.

The objections noted in the original post are very valid, indeed. But, we get to collect what we want to collect and enjoy what we want to enjoy.

It's better to have a collection at all rather than none.

@rbjr85, have people asked you these questions, or is that an impression you are getting from some?

Either one, I suppose, it is kind of irrelevant. I think that the comments already pretty much sum things up.

I suppose that I should add my 2 cents worth. In a sense, all collecting is a bit crazy and we are all a bit nutty. It is hard to justify it on the basis of need, or on the basis of anything other than entertainment (I am assuming that saving precious metals as a from of wealth safe-keeping is a different matter).

We like to be entertained because we are human. In most cases our forms of entertainment are not money makers, and nobody expects them to be.

In the case of collecting, we may be lucky and make make bit of profit down the road, but that is surely the exception. We really do it for entertainment, and it is rather irrelevant that another person is not interested in your chosen area. We also have to pick an area that we can afford, which is pretty obvious I think. It might well be that renaissance gold coins are the most beautiful, but if you can only afford to get coins from circulation and like them, you do not need to answer the critics.