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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 20240, member: 57463&quot;]I concur.&nbsp; I do not recall meeting any coin collectors with <u>no</u> interest in history.&nbsp; Collecting anything is a quiet hobby and generally attracts people who enjoy reading.&nbsp; This seems especially true of numismatics.&nbsp; For myself, my interest in U.S. coins was always for the tie in the heyday of capitalism, the so-called &quot;robber barons&quot; and so on. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;When I discovered ancients, the coins themselves were important only on the basis of their history.&nbsp; The town of Aspendos in Cilicia, for instance, issued a series of Wrestlers.&nbsp; The coins are popular, no doubt about that, but lacking any history of Aspendos, I could not get a handle on the cultural context for the coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When I collected actively, I worked on a set of small silvers (drachms and fractions), worth a days wages, from the towns and times of philosophers.&nbsp; By defnition philosophers are remembered for their ideas and those ideas come from books, from histories.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, the history of the coin <u>is</u> the coin.&nbsp; Artistry, strike, and other factors are just that: factors.&nbsp; I would rather have a nice coin than an ugly one, but I would rather have a meaningful artifact than a pretty one with no history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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