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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2447834, member: 15588&quot;]No offense taken at all. I can understand why you, or many other people here, would question this idea. But I did sneak a nuance in there, I said that I don&#039;t <i>have to buy coins</i>, I didn&#039;t say that I <i>wasn&#039;t</i> going to buy any coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This bizarre thought occurred to me while thinking of immensely great rarities. I&#039;m fascinated by and have studied the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel, but I&#039;ll never own one or hold one in my hand (unless something very monumental happens to me), the same goes for other coins that remain beyond my reach: Elizabethan gold pounds, most Meiji era Japanese gold, and a host of other ancient and medieval coins that I might see in a museum but will never actually touch. These fascinate me to no end, but the urge to actually buy one would frustrate me to insanity. So I just extended this concept to any and all coins and realized, yes, I still want to buy coins, but to appreciate them I don&#039;t really <i>need</i> to.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also agree that there is nothing like the experience of holding a coin in your hand and basking in it&#039;s historicity. I&#039;m not questioning that at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>And though I find the sex analogy a little exaggerated, the same concept applies. There have been people, great rarities so to say, who I would very much like to have that experience with, but I never have or will. This does not stop my endless fascination with those thoughts. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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