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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 715857, member: 6036&quot;]Totally agree. It took me a little while to believe this, then a long while to truly accept it. &quot;It&#039;s a long way from the head to the heart.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Which begs the question &quot;How does one determine quality ?&quot;. And that is the subject of dozens of threads on this site.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree with the notion that US coins are &quot;pale in comparison&quot;. I feel that&#039;s &quot;painting with a broad brush&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If an American says the entire world&#039;s coins are &quot;pale in comparison&quot;, he&#039;ll be accused of xenophobia. If it&#039;s wrong for Americans to say we&#039;re better than everyone else, it&#039;s equally wrong to say we&#039;re worse than everyone else.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve perused world coinage a bit, and there are some I like. Maybe I&#039;ll get excited one day, maybe not.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One problem for me is the &quot;learn up&quot; proviso. I don&#039;t have time or brainpower to have deep expertise on such a broad topic as the world&#039;s coinage over many centuries. Rather than have shallow knowledge of much, I&#039;m shooting for deep knowledge of less - I&#039;m specializing. I prefer early Federal period US... mostly pre-Seated stuff.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That&#039;s plenty challenge for now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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