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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8132430, member: 19463&quot;]Western collectors might be inclined to consider Chinese coins as &#039;Chinese&#039; or accept the various dynasties as sequential rules of the whole land area while it was really a number of regions that overlapped.&nbsp; The same is true of Greek and medieval Europe.&nbsp; Rome was the exception that lasted quite a while but the borders certainly came and went as did the border states (friend or foe).&nbsp; Being an informed coin collector is not always all that easy.&nbsp; Many of us are happy about that. Most of us probably own a few coins from places we could not possibly find on a map.&nbsp; Worse is the fact that there are places that once existed and issued coins but have dropped out of history except for those coins. I am more ignorant of Chinese history than I am of Western.&nbsp; That means that I know of more Western things I don&#039;t know while I don&#039;t even suspect the Eastern equivalent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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