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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2409549, member: 19463&quot;]There is also the question whether a specimen or test strike is really a coin and, for that matter, whether tokens are but we have ancient tokens as well so I think we are back to the matter that CT has sections for you to post about moderns and exonumia.&nbsp; Not all that long ago we waged a bit of a war here to get a separate ancient section partly because the world coin people were tired of the ancient coin people polluting their pool.&nbsp; Now we get posts from modern collectors who tell us how sinful it is to clean coins.&nbsp; I guess they would display their ancients in boxes of dirt in the yard??&nbsp; A lot of this crossover, I suspect, is due to the box on the right side showing recent posts that do not have titles telling modern collectors that they would find ancients there.&nbsp; When we were combined with World, many of us started each of our threads with the word &quot;Ancients:&quot; but that seemed unnecessary when we got our own section on CT.&nbsp; While we welcome visitors who do not collect ancients, we would prefer those visitors remember that they are in the Ancient section and not expect us to know anything about 19th, 20th or 21st century things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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