I Collect Money
I collect money. To be specific, I collect coins. Numismatism, I believe it’s called.
To be more specific still, I collect £1, £2 and 50p pieces. Unless you are attentive to such trivia you mightn’t have even noticed they have different faces – most obviously, the Olympic Sports set of 50p’s.
I keep them in a loose-leaf folder with plastic pockets. The file weighs a ton but probably only contains around £200-worth of coins (at face value).
The kids can’t wait for me to die to spend them.
M.C. Newberry
Sat 5th Oct 2013 17:03
JC - I hope your commitment rewards you in due
course - and that you "coin it" with any sale
of your collection in the future.
I used to collect stamps in the distant days of
Empire - with those brightly coloured scenes
to fill the pages from SO many different lands.
When he was with the Army in Germany, my brother brought back an immaculate loose-leaf
collection - between red leather covers - of
stamps depicting the Nazi days (many of Hitler
himself). I swopped it at school for something or other (as kids often do), but I sometimes
wonder about their value today. Or perhaps
they were like the Russian stamps...produced
in millions and of no real value to a proper collector? I'll never know.