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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gunsmoke, post: 180214, member: 6896&quot;]There are a lot of reasons to admire and be interested in coins. But there is one reason I don&#039;t see mentioned a lot, and that is &quot;medalic art,&quot; the beauty of coins. It&#039;s an acquired taste, I think. Nobody is born with it or learns it in school or college. I remember how it first infected me. I, a young man and not a collector in the 1960s, said to an old-man collector, &quot;There&#039;s a lot of interest in the Kennedy half.&quot; He replied, &quot;Well, it&#039;s a beautiful coin.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I was struck by that sentiment. I had never thought of coins as being beautiful or ugly or anything else. To me a coin was a utilitarian object, like a door key. But as soon as he said that, I thought, yes, the Kennedy half is a beautiful coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that was the real beginning of my appreciation of coins and medals. To look at a beautiful coin, especially with a magnifying glass, to see the relief sculpture, the raised lettering, the uncluttered field, usually silver, it just gave me a real high. I appreciate &quot;higher&quot; art too, Renoir, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, etc.--but I can get a high gazing at medallic art, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anybody feel the same?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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