There are a ton of different things you can collect. Personally, I collect comic books. I have a huge variety of different comic and graphic novels from a ton of different publishers. Everything from superheroes to monsters and horror, crime, noir and pulp.
Today I’m going to talk a little bit about collecting gold coins. I’ve always been interested in coins, but never really thought that much about it. I was recently contacted by Goldline International (see the above link) and asked to look at their site and consider writing about coins. And it is pretty funny, I never thought that something like collecting coins would be so similar to my comic collection. There are a ton of different coins from all around the world. Collecting gold coins is something that could never get old, because there are always new ones. Ancient coins, recently minted coins. The variety is endless. One of my favorite coins featured on the site is the $20 Saint-Gaudens Gold Coin (top left in the title picture). It was circulated between 1907 and 1916, and then again from 1920 to 1933.
What do you collect? Coins? Comics? Something else?
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The crazy thing about collecting is that something ain’t worth what they say it is unless ya got someone willing to dish out that dough. Otherwise it’s just as well worth a penny. The best thing to collect is something that you would do, despite any arbitrary value assigned to it. Like salt and pepper shakers. Penguin figurines. Stuff like that.
I collect comics, but I’m not a comic collector. I’m not looking to flip them and make coin. I just enjoy reading and having them. Better to be a collector for the love of an item, instead of the value.
Dewd, you collect anything in particular?