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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1282247, member: 17919&quot;]American collectors, at least, have been wanting replicas ever since coin collecting started in a big way in the 1800s. According to ANACS:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Attitudes toward copies of coins have changed over the years. Whereas most of us now regard numismatic reproductions as a nuisance and assume that they were all created in order to dupe the unwary collector, this was not always the case. In the nineteenth century, making copies of coins was seen not only as innocent, but as a way of providing other collectors with specimens of rare and unusual coins that were otherwise unobtainable. They were sold openly at auction, and even wealthy collectors would have some in their collections. They certainly weren’t equated with originals, nor were they valued as highly. They were, however, regarded as useful and educational.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=19&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=19&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=19&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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