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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1400925, member: 13650&quot;]Like others, the history and the art.&nbsp;&nbsp; Both are equally interesting to me.&nbsp; Stuff from the old west is intriguing.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1800s coin designs are really something special to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Stuff from around the wars, Civil, world wars, start of the country etc., is all very interesting to me.&nbsp;&nbsp; I suppose thinking about what it would have been like to live during the different time periods is a neat thing for most collectors and the coins give people a way to connect to that past.&nbsp;&nbsp; (Although I wouldn&#039;t want to trade lives with them.&nbsp; Charging up hill at cannons wouldn&#039;t exactly be considered nostalgic if you actually had to do it!!)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Even though we have our own issues today, people in the US and around the world over the last 250 years have faced unbelievable challenges and hardship.&nbsp; (Really not that long ago.)&nbsp; &nbsp; Like nothing we 20 or 30 somethings have ever had to deal with.&nbsp; &nbsp; I can say I&#039;m fatter, happier with less to worry about and more luxuries than my parents, grandparents or great-grandparents ever had.&nbsp; It may not always be this way.&nbsp;&nbsp; But fortunately, we live in a time period where we can go to work, collect coins and only study and reminisce about their harder yet interesting times.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; We can only wonder about the worries and the hardships of those that came before us.&nbsp; What it might have been like to live during the different time periods with no electricity, no technology, crude medicine, and untamed country side.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or living through WWII not knowing when it would end or what the outcome may be.&nbsp; It&#039;s almost like a part of the people live on through the coinage they used.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;It surprises me that more people aren&#039;t serious collectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; It could be people simply never think of it or go through their lives never being introduced to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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