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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmbdii, post: 5269, member: 655&quot;]I suppose that if anyone proposes solutions, they&#039;re being negative.&nbsp; You like to claim that Americans are a bunch of complainers who don&#039;t offer any solutions, but when solutions are mentioned, then the person offering them is contributing to negativity.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Numismatics is as much a study of history, politics and economics as it is a study of coinage designs.&nbsp; How is it all right for you to express your opinion that our form of government is a democracy and it&#039;s wrong for me to point out your error?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; No offense intended, but you&#039;re as prone to stick your political views into a discussions about coins as I am.&nbsp; Our views differ, but there is room for both views to be expressed.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;m not trying to make you shut up.&nbsp; Why are you trying to shut me up?&nbsp; By the way, the Romans silver plated base metal coins and debased precious metal coins.&nbsp; That&#039;s a use of fiat money.&nbsp; Also, the United States was not founded as an empire and has no provision in its founding documents for becoming any &quot;great power&quot;.&nbsp; We&#039;re supposed to be a union of free and sovereign states whose people have inalienable rights to property and the precious metal coinage prescribed in the Constitution is our property.&nbsp;&nbsp; Pointing that out is simply imparting knowledge to the other hobbyists here. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Maybe we would all benefit by including the neglected areas of numismatism in our studies rather than limiting ourselves to acquiring examples of the coinage and currency we study.&nbsp; One thing is certain; if there&#039;s to be no discussion of the why&#039;s of changes in coinage, then the wherefores become pointless.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;m sorry that you take any disagreement with your politics as a personal affront.&nbsp; That&#039;s not at all what I intended.&nbsp; I apologize for having offended you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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