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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 835940, member: 9270&quot;]Maybe looking at the question from the perspective of our &quot;sister&quot; hobby (philatelics) will help.</p><p>If you purchase what is arguably the best album for US stamps (Scott&#039;s National), you will end up with pages for all the territorial issues.</p><p>Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines are among those.</p><p><b>BUT</b> <u>only</u> for the period they were under US administration.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Confusing the analogy is the fact that these stamps were US stamps overprinted with the territory&#039;s name.</p><p>That would be loosely equivalent to using a punch to put the territory&#039;s name on US coins. That obviously didn&#039;t occur.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also in the case of the Philippines the US issued stamps specifically designed for the period of the US administration <b>AND</b> designed specifically for them, i.e., not overprinted US stamps.</p><p>This would be a MUCH closer concept to the Philippine coins that were the topic of this thread.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But the bottom line is <u>decide for yourself</u>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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