By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez
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Coin collecting is a hobby that many people enjoy on their own time in between life’s more hectic moments. It’s a quiet recreational vocation oft enjoyed by hobbyists in solitude while rummaging through coins spread randomly under the warm light of a desk lamp, perhaps in a home office, a study room, or a den. In many respects, numismatics is a pastime well suited to introverts who enjoy researching, studying, and evaluating coins and their histories on their own time, in their own space, at their own pace. Yet numismatics has a major social element, too.