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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 8330516, member: 26302&quot;]Yeah, I buy this some, but not wholly. I believe US collectors wanted to be more dedicated to US coins due to unknown reasons. I believe we kind of had a chip on our shoulders on how new our country was, which is why we went down to individual die level to differentiate our early coinage to make it seem like we had more variety than we really did. Even in countries similar to us usually have more collectors collecting more variety of coins than most US collectors do. Mail has been reliable for over 170 years, making collecting from anywhere in the world easily achievable. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not trying to throw stones, I collected US coins almost exclusively for about 20 years. At some point I knew most of the history for all of it and was bored, so then moved to ancients which naturally lead to more world coins, as the cutoff is very arbitrary. Basically I collect knowledge of history with coins driving me, and I ran out of US history to study.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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