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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1784890, member: 19463&quot;]I consider it an interesting question why the world eventually settled on what we now assume a coin should be.&nbsp; The Chinese cast shapes before they went round and held onto the idea that coins needed to have a hole for stringing while the other independent systems never considered that at all important.&nbsp; The Indian model used punchmarks with designs but made little effort for those marks to be legible and convey information.&nbsp; The Greek model was early to use designs for propaganda or information other than &#039;coin&#039; but slow to decide the things should stack or even be sort of round.&nbsp; When two systems came together as when Alexander brought Greek coins to India, changes happened.&nbsp; Most collectors I have known pretty much stick to Greek system coins but this place on CT has more people interested in some others than I would expect.&nbsp; I never thought much about wanting a coin because it was &#039;lifetime Buddha&#039; or some such reason but it is interesting that more than one here found that a reason to want a coin.&nbsp; Maybe we all should ask what it is about a coin that makes us want the thing.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I did that I might be better prepared to get rid of a few hundred coins that I&#039;m less than deeply in love with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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