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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4411897, member: 111237&quot;]Currency has always been about the art and history for me and has never been about the&nbsp; value save that i must spend some to get a piece that interests me and I want to research and write about. Rarity is interesting to me as well but only when it comes to the research.</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider myself a generalist as everything about currency I find interesting from the mining and substrate to the people who etch the die and mint them... save the buying and selling. I have no interest in trading in coins and have never sold one. I just like what I like. So I find common coins just as interesting as rare old gems so what I own is quite eclectic. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have never really seen myself as a collector just to amass a collection as much as acquiring those specimens that I want to present to people as interesting examples of this human endeavour. I see money much like art, they are human creations and as such they are also a subject of study. Art history, history and numismatics are all closely linked.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is not to say my own taste do not dictate what I study most. German states, post WWI Germany, Roman, Holy Roman Empire,&nbsp; crusades, general world, mostly older. Just like historians might be interested in one or two aspects of history more than others. They still have studied all of history to get that degree and even if they weren&#039;t interested in the topic, if they are like me they were surprised to find they ended up interested after a semester. I did not think I would be interested in the History of Colonial Latin America when I took it for the credits....now it is something I am very interested in, I was fascinated to learn about it more in depth. Same with currency....at first I just cared about Roman coins which was my first passion tied to my first passion in history....then I bought a notgeld because it interested me and now I have a large sampling of notgeld. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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