David Hendin - What Makes a True Collector
Many of you are my friends and acquaintances of more than 50 years. Others will become new friends. As I begin this series of regular articles for CoinWeek I will rehash and update some thoughts I have pondered before. When I began collecting coins, I was about eight years old. I learned from my dad and his brothers who were collectors. When I lived in Israel for a year in the wake of the Six-Day War (June 1967), I found myself attracted to the shops that sold ancient coins in Jerusalem’s Old City. At that time, collectors of ancient coins and artifacts were sort of cultural heroes; w...
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