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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1858224, member: 19463&quot;]I am often offended by the attitude that we each are supposed to be interested only in the country of our current residence.&nbsp; I have ancestors from a dozen countries and have just as many great (insert a lot of greats here) grandparents from Europe as anyone living there now.&nbsp;&nbsp; When my forefathers arrived from Germany in the 1700&#039;s and married into British, Scot, Irish, French and other families who had already been here a century, they did not forfeit the right to be interested in what their great (insert a lot of greats here) grandparents did wherever they were a few thousand years earlier.&nbsp; What I find particularly offensive is the attitude that it is OK for my cousins &#039;over there&#039; to study 10,000 years of history but, since I live in the capital of the Confederate States,&nbsp; I have to be interested in the War Between the States.&nbsp;&nbsp; The chance that one or more of my ancestors was a Roman citizen during the time these coins were being spent approaches 100% .&nbsp; We have to go back further if you require me to explain why I am interested in ancient India or China.&nbsp; I am.&nbsp; By this theory I shouldn&#039;t have any UK coins after 1900 but I do.&nbsp; Quirky nuts?&nbsp; Been called worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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