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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HammeredCoin, post: 2235297, member: 75598&quot;]Doug, for me it takes a personal connection to a period in time to develop a passion for the coins and to out the hard work and study necessary to demonstrate proficiency in knowing the subtleties of each coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hold a coin from a period of history that fascinates me and I close my eyes and it takes me back to that period in the past.&nbsp; All I can think of is who else held the coin, who used the coin and for what purpose.&nbsp; This drives me than to want to learn more about that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t get that feeling from having that coin, than I would postulate that maybe you shouldn&#039;t bother owning the coin.&nbsp; These relatively common hammered coins shouldn&#039;t be bought as a particularly sound financial investment, but rather an investment in your love of learning and understanding of history.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you need to be sold on why you would want to own them, than I would say you already have your answer.&nbsp; I am sure there is a collector of each one of those coins who needs no convincing and they will value and appreciate each one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t mean to be harsh or sound smug.&nbsp; I really don&#039;t.&nbsp; But don&#039;t underestimate the impact that even minor figures of history have had to our collective present.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;History teaches everything, even the future.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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