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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1949327, member: 57463&quot;]I hate it when people call numismatics &quot;coin collecting&quot;. CoinTalk, CoinPeople, Professional Coin Grading Service, Coin World,...&nbsp; Coin, coins, coins; coins and coins...&nbsp; like a Monty Python skit.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Then they restrict the word &quot;coin&quot; to some items that are &quot;official&quot; such as the Confederate Half Dollars and deny it to other coins, such as the British Provincials (&quot;Conder&quot; tokens). In the days of silver coins, would not a 5-cent nickel have been a token? In the days of gold and the gold standard, silver coins were tokens for gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think that corporate stock certificates are close to the highest form of money. The whole hobby could be called &quot;stock collecting&quot; with the coins of governments being fractional points toward the purchase of a Treasury Bond. Sure, that would be a funny way to look at it, but so is our insistence on &quot;coin&quot; collecting, if you stop to think about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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