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<p>[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 558211, member: 9204"]I truly think the term is light-hearted. It doesn't even come close to bothering me. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know I'm going to bother some people by saying this, but I feel it betrays some of the close-mindedness that I've noticed in many American collectors. Please don't take offense to this, if you're even in this section you're open minded! But I can't go against my experience and I've seen too many dealers and collectors shrugging of "foreign junk." </p><p><br /></p><p>An example:</p><p>At the ANA banquet in 2007, I was seated next to an 'investor'. The guy lectured me on the glories of blast white MS slabbed Morgan dollars. I then attempted to explain to him that I didn't care about these and that they lacked any real history. I could not get it through his head. Not to say he wasn't a pleasant person, just had a vastly different world view.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 558211, member: 9204"]I truly think the term is light-hearted. It doesn't even come close to bothering me. I know I'm going to bother some people by saying this, but I feel it betrays some of the close-mindedness that I've noticed in many American collectors. Please don't take offense to this, if you're even in this section you're open minded! But I can't go against my experience and I've seen too many dealers and collectors shrugging of "foreign junk." An example: At the ANA banquet in 2007, I was seated next to an 'investor'. The guy lectured me on the glories of blast white MS slabbed Morgan dollars. I then attempted to explain to him that I didn't care about these and that they lacked any real history. I could not get it through his head. Not to say he wasn't a pleasant person, just had a vastly different world view.[/QUOTE]
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