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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jhonn, post: 287352, member: 5418&quot;]I&#039;m well aware that I&#039;m uninformed on most matters in general. Heck, I know nothing about football or baseball...or advanced physics for that matter. Sure, ask me a question about Wh-Movement in relation to English syntax and I&#039;ll talk for an hour, but ask me who won the Super Bowl last year and I&#039;ll just stare at you dumbly. </p><p><br /></p><p>What was trying to point out (in order to answer Jerome&#039;s question of why people are willing to spend so much on American coins) is that I feel VERY confident in saying that most Americans aren&#039;t that concerned with world history or world politics (and thus world coinage) to a deep enough degree that you could call it a hobby or a passion or even an interest, and coin collectors aren&#039;t necessarily excluded from that. Americans like to collect U.S coinage BECAUSE they&#039;re American coins, and if you don&#039;t care for world history, you probably won&#039;t find collecting world coins that interesting either. Granted, just because someone collects coins - even world coins - it doesn&#039;t mean that they automatically care about the history behind them...but there is probably a better chance that they do. </p><p><br /></p><p>Is it a bad thing if one doesn&#039;t care about world history or world politics? It depend on who you ask. Is it a bad thing that a large number of Americans can&#039;t even point out Iraq on a map? Depends on who you ask. Is it a bad thing I don&#039;t know who won the Super Bowl last year? Depends on who you ask.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, I feel Jerome&#039;s most valid point is that U.S. coins are overrated, and as a result, overpriced. But I guess even overrated depends...on who you ask.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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