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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Daggarjon, post: 356615, member: 4230&quot;]I got into the collecting of currency because US coinage designs suk! Okay, yes, maybe that is a bad overstatement. The desings might not suck, but they certainly are old, stale and yes, boring. I started collecting currency when i was about to drop the hobby altogether a coupel years ago. I was just so flipping bored with my choices. I still collect some coins, and will probably continue to do so on a limited basis. For the time being, my main focus is currency. I would prefer to focus on US notes, but on such a limited budget, what coins i do buy, mostly Commemoratives from the mint, eats up alot of my yearly budget ... so to help keep somethign coming in to keep me occupied froim time to time, i have been buying up world notes. They are for the most part inexpensive (especially when all i get in Ebay lots are currencies that no longer exist lol) </p><p><br /></p><p>I like world notes, not only because you can get them rather inexpensively, but the histories that stand behind each an every one of them ... the lives lost defending the livelyhood or the very creation of the countries that issued the notes. The politics in place, the people sticking their necks out to push the envelope against a tyrant ruler. And then you have the artwork. As i have recently found the US $1 note is so deeply involved with Mathmatics in its inception .. to me, it is an artform in intself. World notes like Dijibouti for example .. staggeringly beautiful! </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone heard of the organization Doctors Without Borders? I am sure everyone has. I was always under the impression that it was a US &#039;company&#039; or group that was created to travle the world and do what we all know they do. And for the most part they are. Anyone ever hear of a &#039;country&#039; called Biafra? it was a succesionist state that tried to break free from Nigeria. Well they failed. And with the actions of Nigeria against the biafran refugees, millions dies in the ensuing famine and slaughter. Doctors Without Borders was CREATED for the very specific goal of helping the Biafrans with medical aide. The group was so sucessful in their goal, it blossomed into one of the largest world medical ogranisation overshadowed by the red cross only (i think, i could easily be worng about the size or membership, but NOT how much they help!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I will never ditch coins for currency completely. But at least for the moment ... i get alot more enjoyment and satisfaction out of currency.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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