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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3173302, member: 19463&quot;]I consider this a good question but since I do not collect modern coins, I have no idea.&nbsp; I strongly suspect that the answer to the question if asked 100-200 years ago would have been &#039;yes&#039; but modern adjectival usages of &#039;ethnic&#039; as in &#039;ethnic group&#039; might have taken over the meaning of the word to the point that the noun &#039;ethnic&#039; alone might not be understood as it once would have been.&nbsp; Language changes over time and place.&nbsp; Terms important to special and specific uses can conflict with the general language.&nbsp; In a quick look, I was unable to find a dictionary online that admitted a definition of the noun &#039;ethnic&#039; other than &#039;person who is a member of an ethnic group&#039;.&nbsp; Does anyone have a print on paper unabridged dictionary?&nbsp; I know they stopped printing them a few years back but I wonder what was last printed before they started removing words and definitions for online use. </p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;Ethnic&#039; as the name or inscription stating the country was part of the language when I learned it.&nbsp; No longer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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