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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 657790, member: 19065&quot;]The inescapable problem with precious metals is that whether nazi gold and silver, Spanish colonial, Roman or any other, it can all be melted down and reformed leaving no trace of it&#039;s ill begotten past and what it once bore to represent... and the jewelry or coins we all now hold could have once been those from a malicious empire or political regime. The ones that remain, exist as a statement of history, what came before, what human folly got itself into and how imperfect is man, how flat out wrong and cruel human can be to human... so what of American gold and silver coins, wrestled from lands once inhabited by indigenous peoples, some say it a genocide as well, those materials then taken to create a new nation, to stamp symbolic eagles and statements of liberty and even mockingly, stylized portraits of iconic looking Chiefs and the peoples&#039; treasured buffalos that were cut down before them... is it any different? I think not or we could not participate in this study and hobby of coins. All above were taken in struggle, unfairly and callously. Perhaps it is the ugliness of human nature, but to recognize that horrible past and come to terms with it so that it may not happen again, to question it and to what extents it corrupted civilzation and to reconcile with that past is utterly important. It is not wrong to possess such coins, but respect what transpired, those who suffered and educate against it ever happening again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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