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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RiotGrrrrl, post: 56434, member: 3367&quot;]Hmmm... I had never heard these terms before now... dark side, light side, grey side, far side... my collection includes all four. I suppose, being Canadian, that my collection of US coins would represent my grey side. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> My darkside, however definitely outweighs all the other &quot;sides&quot;. My unattainable goal is to acquire a coin of every denomination of every year and every type from every country in the world. lol.... ok... I&#039;ll never get there... but that&#039;s part of the fun. I&#039;ll <i>never</i> complete my collection, and I&#039;ll always be building it. So it&#039;ll be fun to see how far I can get before I die. Heh. What attracts me to the &quot;darkside&quot; is the pure numbers and variety of coins out there. (Plus the fact that they sell them inexpensively and sometimes even by the pound. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) As for the far side... I got into exonumia as well because often when I buy world coins in bulk there are different arcade/slot machine and transit-type tokens mixed in. Some of them are actually pretty neat.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But I have to wonder... why &quot;darkside&quot;? Was that term coined (excuse the pun <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) by a numismatic purist who shuns upon those who collect world coins? Are we darksiders the black sheep of the coinworld? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>(Umm... ok... just noticed something I didn&#039;t see before... a better explanation for the darkside term. I kinda like it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>While were quoting Star Wars... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Quoth Annakin Skywalker after cutting off the hands of Count Duku... &quot;I can&#039;t kill him... it&#039;s not the Jedi way... hes <i>unarmed</i>!&quot; *snigger* <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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