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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3541044, member: 57463"]Well, yeah... but... no. It speaks to the questions of why people collect coins, or anything. We are not compelled to do so, except by our own motivations. If we consider numismatics in a cultural context, then I suggest that the first incentive is to own something of historical importance. It was why people in the Renaissance suddenly wanted Roman coins. So, this year's U.S. Mint issue is going to fail that standard.</p><p><br /></p><p>We might be honored to share in something that we care about now being recognized by the government. The many military commemoratives, police coins, Olympics celebrations, the baseball commemoratives... and for the British, Beatrice Potter and Harry Potter.... Having worked for Zeiss, I have Zeiss commemoratives.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I did not buy them in their years of issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did buy two of the recent Newton 50p from the Royal Mint. If I was going to pay for shipping for one, might as well get another... Then, they came out with Stephen Hawking. So, I bought two of those. Then I gave one of each to friend of mine who is a science teacher. Easy peasy... But they are trinkets with personal importance. Last weekend, I bought my wife a Petoskey stone. But the choice was mine, regardless of whatever nonexistent Devonian Coral Society encourages the sale of petrified polyp skeletons.</p><p><br /></p><p>And in the generation after Elder's editorial, in the 1950s, the commemoratives were bought and sold on their own merits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3541044, member: 57463"]Well, yeah... but... no. It speaks to the questions of why people collect coins, or anything. We are not compelled to do so, except by our own motivations. If we consider numismatics in a cultural context, then I suggest that the first incentive is to own something of historical importance. It was why people in the Renaissance suddenly wanted Roman coins. So, this year's U.S. Mint issue is going to fail that standard. We might be honored to share in something that we care about now being recognized by the government. The many military commemoratives, police coins, Olympics celebrations, the baseball commemoratives... and for the British, Beatrice Potter and Harry Potter.... Having worked for Zeiss, I have Zeiss commemoratives. But I did not buy them in their years of issue. I did buy two of the recent Newton 50p from the Royal Mint. If I was going to pay for shipping for one, might as well get another... Then, they came out with Stephen Hawking. So, I bought two of those. Then I gave one of each to friend of mine who is a science teacher. Easy peasy... But they are trinkets with personal importance. Last weekend, I bought my wife a Petoskey stone. But the choice was mine, regardless of whatever nonexistent Devonian Coral Society encourages the sale of petrified polyp skeletons. And in the generation after Elder's editorial, in the 1950s, the commemoratives were bought and sold on their own merits.[/QUOTE]
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