...an explanation!

Well, probably everyone has noticed the wholesale (to a point) deletion of sets. I know I've touched on this in a few journal articles over the past year or so. Well, I've finally took some action.

I really had to ask myself what my main interests are and how to achieve them on a limited budget. Well, the answer was to delete some sets so I could concentrate on my currency and what's really important to me. For example, while I like the clad Commemorative halves, the key word here is CLAD! So out they went, I will be keeping a few (Civil War and the Bald Eagle come quickly to mind) and the rest will be sold to raise some cash. I'm keeping the dollar commems, as my main interest has always been the historical aspects of coins and our great country. While my main interest has always been the West, I do enjoy all American history. Same way with my Canadian dollars, I do love the voyageur (did I spell that right???) and I do enjoy the historical ones in the set, so I kept it.

Except for the Indian Head Cent and Buffalo Nickel, you may notice most all of the other sets are coins of either silver & gold. I think (while copper & nickel older coins are going to hold value, the large cents & half cents for example) I had to draw the line somewhere. The Indian Head Cent & Buffalo Nickel fit into my western theme. All in all, I"m happy with the way things are shaping up, I'll probably keep tweaking things throughout this year. I did remove the older commem set, as quite frankly, some of them I do not like even though they do represent some history. I"ll probably get a few more (Antietam & Stone Mountain for example) and put them in custom sets.

Well I guess this is long enough. Picture for this journal is the reverse of the raw 1907 LIberty nickel I recently acquired.

Thanks for reading.