I've never understood collecting coins, stamps and other mundane items. Their only worth is due to their scarcity. <br><br>I can understand collecting items of historical significance such as the sword used by Agamemnon or a manuscript penned by Leonardo Da Vinci. If a specific coin was used to, for example, buy the freedom for some historically significant figure then I'd agree the coin would be worth collecting. That would only be true if there was a way to trace the event to that particular coin. Those items are and always were one of a kind and have a significant historical background. Items like that, should be in a museum rather than a personal collection however.