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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 927, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Around the World in 80 Dollars</b></p><p><br /></p><p>We tend to see almost everything as &quot;US&quot; or &quot;World&quot; not just coins.&nbsp; The world is a big place.&nbsp; You would put collectors of Chinese Cash in with Collectors of Swiss Shooting Thalers, just because neither is US?&nbsp; I mean, I understand it.&nbsp; I just see no reason to perpetuate it, but the choice is not mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would &quot;world&quot; include &quot;ancients&quot;?&nbsp; It usually does.&nbsp; How about banknotes?&nbsp; or is this just for &quot;coins&quot; (however defined)?</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not an active collector of material, but my interests can probably be described as &quot;World&quot;&nbsp; which includes US as a subset.&nbsp; For instance, just on the surface, there are obvious strong similarities between French coins and the US Barbers.&nbsp; The Walking Liberty Half was cribbed from Oscar Roty&#039;s &quot;La Semeuse&quot; on French coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at an Athenian &quot;new style&quot; tetradrachm and a US Indianhead cent, you can see that it is the same coin, only that the helmet was replaced by feathers.&nbsp; Large cents, Seateds, the Walker (or Semeuse), all have classic antecedents.&nbsp; The designers at the US Mint used their coin cabinet as a standard for creating a neo-classical coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting &quot;World Coins&quot; (or banknotes) lets you develop themes, such as Ships on Coins, Birds on Coins, Elephants on Coins, and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can track the history of a place whose &quot;nationality&quot; changed several times over the course of history, (Aachen or Aix-la-Chapelle, the court of Charlemagne, for instance, or Palermo, Sicily for another).</p><p><br /></p><p>I have many favorites among ancients.&nbsp; Among the more modern coins I have written about are the Tibetan Tangkas.&nbsp; I even learned to read Tibetan in order to write about them for Coin News (Britain).</p><p><br /></p><p>World Coins covers a lot of ground.&nbsp; That is why I enjoy the topic of US Numismatics more from a general view derived from my interest in World.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Would you include the silver &quot;jetons&quot; that are like US Silver Art Bars?&nbsp; These private coins or medalettes were and are popular in Europe (and Latin America) as private commemoratives of fairs, contests, and other events.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I could go on at length.&nbsp; I guess this all boils down to &quot;Yes. I am interested in World Coins.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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