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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheFinn, post: 2873911, member: 90102&quot;]I agree about modern NCLT coins.&nbsp; I am amazed at how much people will spend for a 1960&#039; coin in a plastic slab that is the &quot;top pop&quot;, yet yawn when shown an ancient coin.&nbsp; Our society is definitely shallow.&nbsp; My current quest is the coinage of Napoleon and his siblings on crowns - they ruled Europe in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and parts of Germany.&nbsp; The other is the Latin Monetary Union, which was the forerunner of the current European Union.&nbsp; Very fascinating&nbsp; part of history that is overlooked and was the turning point from the world going from a bimetallic monetary system (silver and gold) to a gold standard.&nbsp; France, as a dying empire tried with one last gasp to be the rule maker, but GB wouldn&#039;t play. The US hoped a bimetallic system would be chosen with its wealth of silver, but it didn&#039;t pan out.&nbsp; This is why the $4 Stella was struck, as a way to get into the LMU.&nbsp; A lot more history in coins than people realize or want to know other than whether something is PL or DMPL.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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