Bruce Wilmore, I can feel your pain....

Bruce's journal article really hit home with me. Like Bruce, my collection was really expanding into areas that were getting far afield from my Wild West and related sets.

Plus, my credit card balances are getting way too high. I need to pay them off, and soon. So, I had to make some hard choices. Right now, the choice that is definitely the hardest, is removing my Large Cent registry set, and a few pieces of my gold. My goal is still the same, namely acquiring the sharpest struck coins in the grade I can afford, but in a lot fewer sets.

My Wild West & Mexican sig sets are staying, as are my Canadian sets. Also, my Morgans, Buffalo nickels & Indian Head cents, plus my prime Wild West yearly mint sets. Pretty much everything else is going.

It's going to be a rough year or so for me, but like Bruce, I plan on doing a lot of research, especially on some of my Mexican coins and specimen notes.

I'm still getting some coins graded, I have a bunch of American Eagles to do, plus a few so-called dollars & mint products.

As for my research, the first subject will be this nice, gold Mexican medal. For example, I have no clue as to the man pictured on the obverse. I'm attaching the obverse pic with this journal article. Oh, by the way, I bought a new computer table, my old one was causing allergy problems on my arm. The best part about it, my pictures have improved on the sharpness immensely.

So, on with my tasks, and I sure hope I can get some good journal articles out of all this