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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bluegill, post: 557284, member: 1748&quot;]Here’s my theory as to why people use it and why the nickname has “stuck”:</p><p><br /></p><p>It started as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the unknown and the distant, Eduard, as you mention in 1. and 2. in your opening post.&nbsp; As in, “the dark side of the globe,” the other side of the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I think it has real staying power due to its association with Star Wars.&nbsp; It connotes something sinister (again, tonue-in-cheek) and seductive.&nbsp; Once you start to dabble in world coins, you get sucked further and further in…soon, your other American friends don’t know what you’re talking about.&nbsp; Whaddya mean, you’re learning about the Hejira calendar? Colonial coins of Africa?&nbsp; Son, just stick to buffalo nickels, or you’ll turn out like Mike.&nbsp; He spends hour after hour reading about Austrian commemoratives. None of us knows him anymore…</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, I think it’s mostly used by Americans to poke fun at the typical American coin collector’s tendency to avoid non-U.S. coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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