Would Collectible Paper Currency and Coinage Be Good Things to Set Aside?

Whether you collect paper money or coins, you know you have an expensive hobby. Your loved ones are annoyed. Your friends think you're nuts.

But you know better.

Why? Because, although you add regularly to your collection, it's not at high dealer or auction house prices. You don't even look at eBay - well, ok, maybe you do look at eBay.

When it comes time to add something to your collection you just... go to the bank. You write a check to Cash, or hand over some well worn paper money or a sack of coins, and Viola!

Your friendly teller proffers you some crisp uncirculated currency fresh from the Federal Reserve which you hungrily accept. She adds a garnish of bright and sparkling mint state coins from Philadelphia, Denver, or San Francisco.

You are delighted. Cloud Nine is somewhere below...

You're a FACE VALUE collector! You have coins and collectible paper currency in the finest condition. You are so clever!

And you are patient. (You have to be.)

At home you ogle your newly acquired treasures, then carefully stow them away using storage methods approved at the highest levels of numismatic and scripophillic authority.

You keep your holdings for ten, twenty, maybe fifty years. You leave them for your grandchildren.

They speak of you as their ancestor.

A genius.