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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 64479, member: 57463"]I happen to have two of the "same" Greek coin from Abdera c.480 BC and two of the "same" Roman coin from Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger and I have several of the "same" Tibetan tangka coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>No two are alike, even when they were "mass produced" because they were made by hand. And really, even among the machine-made coins, no two are identical.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even so, I picked up <u>four</u> Saint-Exupery France 50 Francs and gave one to another pilot. For the same motivation, I have several Physicist notes. And with a special research project going right now, I have several of several denominations from the Central Mine of Eagle Harbor, Michigan, because even though the notes are "the same" the <u>endorsements</u> are different. </p><p><br /></p><p>You know, Old GD brought up an interesting point... Collecting exactly one coin... hmmmm.... even if you moved on after a while to another coin .... one by one, you would get to them pretty well... hmmmm.... And there are some interesting coins in the US 19th century types, denominations and years with several varieties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 64479, member: 57463"]I happen to have two of the "same" Greek coin from Abdera c.480 BC and two of the "same" Roman coin from Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger and I have several of the "same" Tibetan tangka coins. No two are alike, even when they were "mass produced" because they were made by hand. And really, even among the machine-made coins, no two are identical. Even so, I picked up [U]four[/U] Saint-Exupery France 50 Francs and gave one to another pilot. For the same motivation, I have several Physicist notes. And with a special research project going right now, I have several of several denominations from the Central Mine of Eagle Harbor, Michigan, because even though the notes are "the same" the [U]endorsements[/U] are different. You know, Old GD brought up an interesting point... Collecting exactly one coin... hmmmm.... even if you moved on after a while to another coin .... one by one, you would get to them pretty well... hmmmm.... And there are some interesting coins in the US 19th century types, denominations and years with several varieties.[/QUOTE]
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