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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 73512, member: 708&quot;]You&#039;re someone after my own heart, you know that? I buy coins for the same reasons, and to me history is all about kings, dates and battles. Throw in a few knights, peasants, a monk or two and a castle and i&#039;m all ears.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can tell i watched alot of Robin Hood as a child. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Although unlike all those people in those Robin Hood stories i actually like King John. Evil barons making him sign the Magna Carta, and inviting the French over to take the English throne! If Richard hadn&#039;t have kept going on these Crusades and getting caught then John wouldn&#039;t have had to tax as harshly in the first place! (well up until 1199 that is!)</p><p><br /></p><p>This hobby is very rewarding to someone interested in history. Alot of people interested in Ancient history find coins a good way of understanding further and appreciating Classical culture. Ancient coins have a fairly decent audience in the US.</p><p><br /></p><p>Us medievalists are however, a bit thinner on the ground. In the US there&#039;s not that much for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many people are put off from medieval coinage not just from the design perspective but also from the historical perspective. Some people find it hard to relate to the medieval period. I&#039;ve known some people fascinated by ancient history (that have studied Classics, which incidentally i have studied as well) that said at best they couldn&#039;t get their head around the medieval period at all, or at worst they couldn&#039;t care less. So they studied Classics and Modern history and swept everything that happened between 400AD and 1800 under the carpet. Weird.</p><p><br /></p><p>How could you find medieval harder to relate to than ancient?</p><p><br /></p><p>That does puzzle me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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