Collecting Coins is about Magic & Creativity: Without it ... You Are Dead.

This blog has been dormant for a while – a couple of months. But the collecting has not stopped. Collectors cannot stop. It’s not an compulsion, mind you; rather, it is a creative drive.

As Sigmund Freud remarked (and I paraphrase): the collection is dead once the hunt and acquisition stops. I would add that part of the collector dies too – some bundle of neurons rot away after the last coin.

BTW, Freud was an avid collector of antiquities – his “dirty gods” as he called them.

This blog needed a break: a rest.

So, I spent the summer in distraction mode. Oh, I continued to think about relics and magic. But I was mind wandering.

Free Your Self.
Go into D-mode and swim across the Bay.
Collect whatever amuses you.

This is when your brain shifts into default mode. This D-mode describes the way your neurons click when you are walking in the woods and trying to avoid slippery rocks. Great ideas just pop into your head during these times -- or at least they are supposed to. I was just looking for a nudge.

As a divertissement I pondered various muscle cars. What an exciting era: NHRA Junior Stock. Some of my favorites were the ’62 Mopars – side fins? My first cars were Novas: ’68 and ’70 – no, side fins, but a lot of look-back.

Do muscle cars have the magic? Do they have the heart and soul of their past owners resonating within the sheet metal? I think they do -- just as coins contain the passions of those who spent, saved, and collected them.

If you can’t feel the magic, then you are … well, dead.

And, I have never met a dead collector. Collecting is a gift.

Collecting is also a state of mind, a kink in the brain – a magical kink at that. Finding meaning in an accumulation of objects is a funny thing. Ponder that while you are walking in the woods and trying to avoid slippery rocks. So, have I decided to let this blog get weirder? Why not? Relic coins are where the action is. I plan an all-out assault on the new and shiny ... .

After all, I am a necromancer. That is my quest.