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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1571, member: 57463&quot;](#)&nbsp; I have some coins from all over the world and they have their charm in their own way, but the discussion here is for Euros -- and related topics, so I will limit this to Europe.</p><p><br /></p><p>(1) As a teacher of &quot;middle school&quot; (6th, 7th, and 8th grades), I buy coins by the pound (2.2 kg) for use in my classes.&nbsp; It comes to about 4 or 5 coins per dollar and the advantage is that I can pick the coins from mixed bulk bins.&nbsp; For a kid who is 12, a coin from 1962 is from the Dark Ages. Add the differences in languages and you have an object that is totally foreign.&nbsp; So, one of the uses I have is when discussing ancient history, I can pass out a coin to each kid and tell them to deal with it as if it were an artifact.&nbsp; What can you tell about the people who made this?</p><p><br /></p><p>(2) For myself, the coins I find most charming are mid-grade Very Good to Fine, large coppers, the British penny, the 10 Centissimi and 10-centimes and so on.&nbsp; Here you have a large working area for the artist.&nbsp; You have a coin of not much value that still circulated widely because it had a place in commerce.&nbsp; Life was good and people could afford the little things.&nbsp; When the coin comes from Britain or France, you know that it circulated in commerce around the globe across the seas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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