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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 394948, member: 6036&quot;]...which makes them no different from many of us human beings ! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But seriously folks... Snowden mentioned the <i><b>history</b></i> of coins of the US. I can see how he might feel that the history tie-in was independent of micro-varieties. Maybe he felt one could learn enough history looking at the coinage &quot;big picture&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But maybe there are some things Snowden missed !</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Using varietal micro-differences is how some very clever people have deduced what was happening 200 years ago. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When I read books, especially Breen, I&#039;m amazed at what people can figure out looking at coins. It&#039;s kind of like Sherlock Holmes. Or like paleontologists figuring out what life was like 200 million years ago looking at the fossil record - which is incomplete, just like the coinage record.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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