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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3608267, member: 96864&quot;]My personality and interests largely coalesced and crystallized before I learned how to ride a bike, with a deep love and fascination with history, artifacts, antiques and coins representing a central facet. I&#039;m a strong visual and tactile learner and thinker so handling objects has always been an irresistible inclination, if not an absolute necessity. I bought my first 2 ancients from a generous Baltimore show dealer when I was 6, and can still recall the immersive and lovely albeit imperfect mental world that handling them automatically sucked me into. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins are artifacts, and artifacts in general are potent portals into the past. Holding them is like taking a trip in a time machine where the imagination can wander within the broad parameters set by the time and place of origin. I may never know the names of the individuals who created and used the artifacts, but the reality of the items implies the reality of their creators and those who interacted with the pieces in spite of their names having been lost to the sands of time. They lived and loved and struggled and died then turned into dust long before I came into being, but the reality of their artifactual residues means that once they were just as real as anyone alive today; perhaps more real and alive since they actually had to fight, work and suffer to earn their existence unlike the coddled comfortable drones of today whose entire meaningless life can be subsidized by the government from cradle to grave.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect because the more historically effervescent items inspire and anchor learning about past realities, and are capable of launching factually constrained voyages of the imagination which can be so pleasurable and viscerally tangible that when I snap out of the daydreaming and reenter the mundane cadence of present reality it often feels as if I&#039;ve gone to sleep. I love the ambiguity and mysterious nature of many artifacts, so while it appeals to the analytical side of the brain to have mysteries solved and questions concretely answered, the eternal uncertainties are a sort of romantic fertilizer for open-ended intuitive contemplation; an exercise that nurtures profound insights and appreciation for the difficult path from the stone age to the stars that our magnificent species is traversing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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