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Interesting question. I’ve been collecting for 45 years, so I have what is generally called a “wheelbarrow” collection. That is, there are so many non-valuable coins in it that you couldn’t carry it in a wheelbarrow. From the very beginning I concentrated on world coins – ignoring U.S. coins except as they occurred in collections I bought. Over the years I have narrowed by collecting direction from “Get two coins of every different KM number” to concentrate on coins with mermaids (see Palau) and coins from leper colonies. Since I have most of the low-priced coins in those two categories, I have recently narrowed my focus to coins from entities about which most people exclaim, “Where the heck is