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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1066merlin, post: 1123765, member: 27678&quot;]I understand your point completely. I&#039;m looking at it strictly from a historical perspective. Being able to hold a piece of REAL history in your hand is just amazing to me. They came from a period of great turmoil which shaped the world as we know it today. Good or bad it is a huge part of European and world history. Coins like that and many others that are even older is history. The oldest coins we have in the US are babies in comparison.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is one of the reasons why I asked the question originally. There are just so many reasons why we collect what we collect. As I said in my last post, I think for me I collect US coinage is strictly becauce of tradition. When my great grandfather started collecting coins, it was all that was available at the time. It would have been nearly impossible for him to have access to many world coins at all. Years later as the coins pass down thru the family finally to me, it is a US coin collection. I unknowingly keep that tradition going without giving it much thought until now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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