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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sakata, post: 2667621, member: 23778&quot;]Numismatics and history are inextricably intertwined.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are many lessons to be learned.&nbsp;&nbsp; But what is the most interesting fact you have learned which you would not have do so had you not be a coin collector?</p><p><br /></p><p>My interest is in German coins and I was amazed to find just how fragmented the area now know as Germany has been throughout most of its history.&nbsp; Today it is a unified country.&nbsp; Even through most of my life it was only two: east and west.&nbsp; To find that there have been many hundreds of coin issuing entities over the last 500 years was quite a shock.&nbsp; I would watch Wagner operas and they had references to officials whom I thought were just minor local officials.&nbsp; Coin collecting has shown be that they actually had power!</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, I also learned that there is no way I will ever acquire even a small percentage of the total available number of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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