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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 113866, member: 708&quot;]I find those box coins fascinating but i like them not because they&#039;re coins but because they are pieces of history. Yes i know coins are pieces of history in their own right, but when a coin has been altered to me it stops being a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>An enamelled coin becomes a piece of fashion/artwork.</p><p><br /></p><p>A holed coin becomes a piece of jewerly (just like a sovereign ring is more jewerly than coin).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course they are all still &#039;coins&#039;, it&#039;s just that i don&#039;t use that noun first to describe them once they&#039;ve been altered. Coins to me are for spending, if the primary purpose has been altered beyond spending then the coin becomes something else to me. i.e jewelry, smuggling box, luck charm, love token...</p><p><br /></p><p>It semantics to me. I have a very narrow definition of what makes a coin a coin, even proofs fall outside of that definition to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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