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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3181071, member: 83956&quot;]I hold a strange dual citizenship. I’m a person with the proper piece of paper and “right” initials before my name.&nbsp; I am also a private collector. I stand at the intersection of many of these debates and feel the pull of both communities. I have often thought I would leave my coins to a university, but the prospect that they would sit in trays in a store room for decades is sadly real.&nbsp; Perhaps the wish to bequeath them as a unified collection to an institution represents a futile effort to exercise some control over a collection from beyond the grave—an impulse as human as it is absurd.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am curious—where did that small but significant collection come from? What institution had it in its forgotten library bookcase?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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