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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 22918, member: 57463"]Don't give up the ship! I certainly hope that you are among the continuing participants. Anyone can think this through. I have thought out the negatives. I can see the problems. I have no special insights to the answers. Sometimes it comes to you in morning after you sleep on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>We think that if we can understand <u>the first coin</u>, then we understand "coins" or "coinness." I am not even sure that this is fruitful.</p><p><br /></p><p>I said above that your definition was OK. It just had a few large holes in it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The same kinds of problems come from every coin dictionary or glossary I have seen and I once worked with a coin library of about 10,000 books. The ANA recently formed a <u>committee</u> to define coins. (They did other things, but that was one of their assignments.) Your views, questions, opinions, readings, observations, and mystical insights are as <b>important</b> as anyone else's, surely![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 22918, member: 57463"]Don't give up the ship! I certainly hope that you are among the continuing participants. Anyone can think this through. I have thought out the negatives. I can see the problems. I have no special insights to the answers. Sometimes it comes to you in morning after you sleep on it. We think that if we can understand [U]the first coin[/U], then we understand "coins" or "coinness." I am not even sure that this is fruitful. I said above that your definition was OK. It just had a few large holes in it. :p The same kinds of problems come from every coin dictionary or glossary I have seen and I once worked with a coin library of about 10,000 books. The ANA recently formed a [U]committee[/U] to define coins. (They did other things, but that was one of their assignments.) Your views, questions, opinions, readings, observations, and mystical insights are as [B]important[/B] as anyone else's, surely![/QUOTE]
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