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<p>[QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 1462019, member: 25270"]I actually think Yugoslavian coins are kind of neat, though I don't focus on them in my collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think a lot of collectors when they start off focus on their home country, and for Americans there is more than 200 years' worth of coins to go after. If you are one of those collectors who keeps trying for the best condition and buying upgrades, you could spend your whole life on that. Some people will branch into world coins but focus on their ancestral homeland - if they're Irish, they'll collect Irish coins, and so on. The majority of Americans are from a few countries originally, so you'd think if they collected world coins they'd be more inclined toward those, but I don't know if that pans out though. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's harder to collect coins that aren't in English because people like to know what it says. Maybe you speak another language or can figure it out, but then there are the countries that use other alphabets, and that's a whole different challenge. I think Asian and Middle Eastern coins are not popular here mostly for that reason. Plus a lot of Asian coins are counterfeited, and that makes someone like me hesitant to even try that. </p><p><br /></p><p>To the person who said that world coins don't have designs as good as U.S. coins, that's an ignorant statement. Sure, you can find a lot of examples of lousy designs, but there are thousands of beautiful ones too. Read these threads and see the pictures people post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 1462019, member: 25270"]I actually think Yugoslavian coins are kind of neat, though I don't focus on them in my collection. I think a lot of collectors when they start off focus on their home country, and for Americans there is more than 200 years' worth of coins to go after. If you are one of those collectors who keeps trying for the best condition and buying upgrades, you could spend your whole life on that. Some people will branch into world coins but focus on their ancestral homeland - if they're Irish, they'll collect Irish coins, and so on. The majority of Americans are from a few countries originally, so you'd think if they collected world coins they'd be more inclined toward those, but I don't know if that pans out though. It's harder to collect coins that aren't in English because people like to know what it says. Maybe you speak another language or can figure it out, but then there are the countries that use other alphabets, and that's a whole different challenge. I think Asian and Middle Eastern coins are not popular here mostly for that reason. Plus a lot of Asian coins are counterfeited, and that makes someone like me hesitant to even try that. To the person who said that world coins don't have designs as good as U.S. coins, that's an ignorant statement. Sure, you can find a lot of examples of lousy designs, but there are thousands of beautiful ones too. Read these threads and see the pictures people post.[/QUOTE]
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