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<p>[QUOTE="JeromeLS, post: 287283, member: 7867"]Thinking about it, I just don't understand how anyone can spend anything over $1000 on an american coin. Even the patterns shouldn't be worth more than $20,000. This excludes the early colonial coins-they count as intresting. </p><p><br /></p><p>They are WAY too exspensive.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Look at the miserable wire rimmed St Gaudens that people pay thousands for? Personally, I would prefer to have 2000 roman, greek, german states, early french etc coins than anything like that. Even the flowing hair dollars are overated, especially as they are so many of them. Why are they so popular anyway ?? And please don't answer with stuff about pariotism, because that is pathetic. And eagerness about american history cannot enter into it...there is hardly any american history that is really mirrored in the coins.....</p><p><br /></p><p>Apologies if I have offended anyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JeromeLS, post: 287283, member: 7867"]Thinking about it, I just don't understand how anyone can spend anything over $1000 on an american coin. Even the patterns shouldn't be worth more than $20,000. This excludes the early colonial coins-they count as intresting. They are WAY too exspensive. Look at the miserable wire rimmed St Gaudens that people pay thousands for? Personally, I would prefer to have 2000 roman, greek, german states, early french etc coins than anything like that. Even the flowing hair dollars are overated, especially as they are so many of them. Why are they so popular anyway ?? And please don't answer with stuff about pariotism, because that is pathetic. And eagerness about american history cannot enter into it...there is hardly any american history that is really mirrored in the coins..... Apologies if I have offended anyone.[/QUOTE]
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