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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 5235, member: 708&quot;]The greatest pleasure is the feeling of holding a piece of history, knowing some guy sat there laboriously making the die with his engraving tools, then after it&#039;s minted the coin goes out into circulation through countless hands, you can hold so much history in your hand all at once. And as well as the pleasure of holding the history you are also holding the future for generations to come. Imagine 300 years from now as someone has the coin you once held and admired sat in their own hands, and they wonder the same questions about it, that you wondered, and perhaps these are the same questions that a guy 300 years before you wondered!</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s what i love so much about the older medieval stuff. When they were minted there were still the days of feudalism, knights, peasants, the Black Death and other such &#039;wonderful&#039; things, castles and stuff like that. The question of how did this coin survive all that, how did it pass down through the generations unscathed? when great castles have vanished and been destroyed, theaters called The Globe have burned down, Ships have sank, and yet this little round metal disc has withstood all this!</p><p><br /></p><p>Truely amazing![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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