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<p>[QUOTE="Tom B, post: 2048639, member: 11854"]I guess it is splitting hairs, but as written originally I don't know that you would receive universal agreement among those who work in the hobby/industry about the definition and, since this is in a thread started by someone new to collecting, I thought another viewpoint might be useful. You know a well as I do that anyone can define a "complete collection" so that isn't very helpful. Also, extending the definition of die marriage to mean "a unique Type" goes too far, too, in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The opinion part of my post was your supposition that US coins are collected so intensely along die marriages "because we have so little history here". Is that really the reason? If so, for what percentage of those collectors is that the reason? Are there other reasons? Do all researchers agree that this is the only reason? That was my point about opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another country that appears to go as far in some areas and beyond the US collector base for minutia is Canada.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless of if we are in complete agreement or not, and it appears we might not be, there is a whole wide range of grey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tom B, post: 2048639, member: 11854"]I guess it is splitting hairs, but as written originally I don't know that you would receive universal agreement among those who work in the hobby/industry about the definition and, since this is in a thread started by someone new to collecting, I thought another viewpoint might be useful. You know a well as I do that anyone can define a "complete collection" so that isn't very helpful. Also, extending the definition of die marriage to mean "a unique Type" goes too far, too, in my opinion. The opinion part of my post was your supposition that US coins are collected so intensely along die marriages "because we have so little history here". Is that really the reason? If so, for what percentage of those collectors is that the reason? Are there other reasons? Do all researchers agree that this is the only reason? That was my point about opinion. Another country that appears to go as far in some areas and beyond the US collector base for minutia is Canada. Regardless of if we are in complete agreement or not, and it appears we might not be, there is a whole wide range of grey.[/QUOTE]
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