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<p>[QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 1262188, member: 13307"]My feeling on the matter is this:</p><p><br /></p><p>The same people that advertise "WTC ASE" coins, or sell worthless sets to senior citizens, or try to sell state quarter sets for many, many times their actual values...should be legislated out of business. It's predatory behavior specifically designed to take advantage of certain people.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, deeming some country as "the evil empire" is purely subjective. I'm sure many countries see the US as the evil empire. So on that subject, collect what you want. IMO Nazi silver is just that - coins produced by a state government at a specific time period in history. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if we're talking about gold coins that came from melted down jewelry/fillings from prisoners of concentration camps...entirely different story. </p><p><br /></p><p>If we're talking about KKK tokens/memorabilia - I personally do not agree with the viewpoints of this or similar groups, but who am I to say someone is wrong for collecting it? I wouldn't feel guilty owning items of this kind, though - because it would be for educational / historical knowledge. I'm not going to make a plaque of Hitler and decorate it with KKK / Nazi coins and hang it in my living room...nor am I going to assemble said set and try to sell it for five times what the coins are worth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 1262188, member: 13307"]My feeling on the matter is this: The same people that advertise "WTC ASE" coins, or sell worthless sets to senior citizens, or try to sell state quarter sets for many, many times their actual values...should be legislated out of business. It's predatory behavior specifically designed to take advantage of certain people. However, deeming some country as "the evil empire" is purely subjective. I'm sure many countries see the US as the evil empire. So on that subject, collect what you want. IMO Nazi silver is just that - coins produced by a state government at a specific time period in history. Now, if we're talking about gold coins that came from melted down jewelry/fillings from prisoners of concentration camps...entirely different story. If we're talking about KKK tokens/memorabilia - I personally do not agree with the viewpoints of this or similar groups, but who am I to say someone is wrong for collecting it? I wouldn't feel guilty owning items of this kind, though - because it would be for educational / historical knowledge. I'm not going to make a plaque of Hitler and decorate it with KKK / Nazi coins and hang it in my living room...nor am I going to assemble said set and try to sell it for five times what the coins are worth.[/QUOTE]
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