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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;invictus, post: 383459, member: 9973&quot;]If I was living in a country where most of its history was unkind to my race, I don&#039;t suppose I&#039;d collect coins of the period given the lack of nostalgia. And not seeing anyone who looked like me in the designs would serve to insulate me from the artistic side of collecting. So for me, its easy to imagine a generalized black perspective on this hobby. To take it even further, a black might see the old US coin as the object most epitomizing the slave trade, since one&#039;s ancestor may have been traded for it, if not at least defined in terms of its value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the broader question, though, is what does coin collecting offer, and what is the average youth looking for? I think that they are in general, diametrically opposed. Action, excitement, respect of peers and being the desire of the opposite sex.. coins won&#039;t be your avenue to such things, generally. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unless you&#039;re Indiana Jones freeing Atocha finds from the evil Mel Fisher: &quot;Those coins belong in my pocket, ahem, in a museum!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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