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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 3977406, member: 4626&quot;]If you think a donut is the silliest thing sold as a coin these days... at least it&#039;s arguably a coin, if a rather silly subject for one.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen statues of elephants and penguins that have a denomination stamped on them that are still marketed as &quot;coins&quot; and it makes me wonder if we need a stricter definition on what qualifies as a coin.&nbsp; And the TPGs still grade them (having to come up with weirder holders to slab them).&nbsp; I wonder if there&#039;s some point any of them would ever say &quot;OK this is ridiculous, that&#039;s not a coin, we&#039;re not grading that.&quot;&nbsp; I can&#039;t help but think there&#039;s already stuff they&#039;re rolling their eyes at but grading anyway.&nbsp; Is there some line they&#039;d ever draw?&nbsp; Is there any point the coin collecting world will say &quot;OK this is getting stupid; these aren&#039;t coins.&nbsp; If people want to buy them and collect them so be it, but we&#039;re officially declaring that these are not coins.&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>(Side note: I&#039;ve found it weird especially with Tuvalu commemoratives, but other countries have been doing it too, when a country produces a coin that commemorates something that has nothing to do with that country, like Gambia making a coin that commemorates Elvis or something.&nbsp; It just seems so obviously artificial.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few colorized coins done by countries&#039; official mints and I&#039;ve personally decided that&#039;s where I&#039;d draw the line, that these are still coins and I can live with that.&nbsp; I&#039;m not collecting donuts, beer cans, Ginesh statues, penguins, etc. even as a joke.&nbsp; I have to draw the line somewhere if I&#039;m going to keep my sanity and be able to call myself a <i>coin</i> collector while keeping a straight face.</p><p><br /></p><p>People can collect whatever they want of course; it&#039;s their money.&nbsp; But that doesn&#039;t mean I have to take this kind of thing seriously, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway little speech over; just felt I had to say something.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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