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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4780378, member: 111237&quot;]I tend to agree save to say that to some it is a hobby, but numismatics is not a hobby, it is a field of study, really no different than art history or any other discipline devoted to the study of human endeavours. Some might collect art, others study the history and trends of art through the ages. I minored in art history and studied the history of design (a field far more impactful to human development than one may think...think about the written word), animation, landscape painting and of course the many eras of art from prehistoric to modern.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t collect art, I have some of course, but I have seriously studied it. Art is an incredibly important aspect of human behaviour, far more than just pretty pictures, and I would argue that the human tendency to place a value on everything (including an hour of human life) money, physical currency, monetary systems and conceptual representations of value is just as much, if not more, important even if, unfortunately, it has not been treated as such. It just so happens that unlike art through the ages, coins are far more accessable to us thus we are able to aquire those specimens that we study...if I couldn&#039;t, I would still study and be interested in the concept of mediums of exchange.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can tell you that in my art history classes, where women were certainly well represented, I injected the art of the coin as indeed art is just one aspect of currency that numismatics encompasses. As a teacher coins are used as a tool to help visualize the past. The more numismatics is seen as a legitimate area of scholarship I think the more people may become interested in it beyond seeing it as just a hobby, or as one man characterizes it, a bunch of fetishistic coin fondlers. Not that there there is anything wrong with just collecting coins. Like art history I can see the field attracting both men and women as money is, as we all know here, interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now back to your regularly scheduled program. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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