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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 3419915, member: 74968&quot;]I wrote a few academic papers (and published at least one of them) on the changing nature of our definition of the professions. You are correct according to the literature on the topic. A little over a hundred years ago professionals were disparaged because they were not rich enough to do what they loved. They had to work for a living. Remember that the root of &quot;amateur&quot; is the latin word for love. An amateur does what he or she loves (i refuse to use the plural here as the subject is singular).</p><p><br /></p><p>In my view a numismatist is anyone who studies coins for the sheer joy and fascination of it. In other words a lover of coins and everything that surrounds them including the history of the items and the historical events they refer to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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