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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 6825, member: 708&quot;]It was coins that got me interested in history too, now i&#039;m doing a degree in it!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is what does it for me, more oft than not.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect US coins cos i like the designs (artistic merit of some of them, $20 Libs for instance, gorgeous coins), others cos i like the silver content, especially the old 90% silver coins, Washington Quarters and Merc dimes, i love em.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect UK coins for a different reason, not because of the artistic merit exactly, but because of the history. The fact i can hold a 12th century coin in my hands and think back to the days of castles, Wars with France, plagues, civil strife, poverty, extremely rich nobles, a totally different way of life.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what really does it are two things. 1) some coins have moneyors names on them, thus a name recorded in history of a man that made his living from making coins, i wonder what he looked like, how long he did the job for, if he had a family, was ha an honest moneyor, or was he minting substandeard coins and if so did he get punished for it by having his ears removed? (fascinating eh?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly, how did this coin survive from then, to now and in such great condition?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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