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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 8249225, member: 51347&quot;]Agreed.&nbsp; Many of my coins have less than 20 known, as with many of the folks here on CT.&nbsp; To me, Historical significance, critical junctures in Human History, and rarity has more of an allure than how &quot;pretty&quot; a coin is.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; But those are MY attributions to Collecting. </p><p><br /></p><p>I left collecting Modern coins years ago because everyone was focused on &quot;pretty&quot;.&nbsp; They were boxing the coins into plastic tombs, worrying over rating numbers, and having multiples of the same looking, machine manufactured coins differing only by a year number or a mint letter.&nbsp; It was not the &quot;pretty&quot; that got me into collecting then, it was historical significance of the what&#039;s and why&#039;s those coins were created.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-4-13_17-36-30-png.1101018/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>India - Shakya Janapada</b></p><p>AR 5-Shana</p><p>6th-5th Century BCE</p><p>25mm x 21mm, 7.05g</p><p>Obv: Central Pentagonal punch plus several banker&#039;s marks</p><p>Rev: Blank</p><p>Ref: Hirano Type I.8.29</p><p>19 known.</p><p>Coinage from the Ghaghara Gandak River region</p><p>Minted in the Shakya Janaprada during <b>Siddhārtha Gautama&#039;s (Later the Buddha)</b> <b>lifetime</b> while he was prince, and under the authority of his father as King[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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