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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 2494181, member: 42034&quot;]I think that coins are an excellent way to illustrate history and connect with our past.&nbsp; Also as you&#039;ve seen, they go way back: well at least to ~650 BC or for British at least to the issues of Lucius Verus or Marcus Aurelius (161 -180 AD) with the &quot;Britannia&quot; spelled out on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s always the challenge of finding a difficult specimen and the thrill of the hunt.&nbsp; However for the 1897 Brazil crown I&#039;d have greatly preferred if my quarry simply submitted and died a lot more peacefully.&nbsp; I think the &quot;Brexit&quot; and the absolute lack of write-up, let my Charles I XX shillings go [relatively] cheaply tho.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m also working on a project where I hope to research and author a book with a very in-depth historical tie-in for coins of certain countries.&nbsp; Also I have a website devoted to this although it&#039;s really in a very early stage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your can semi-easily create a website where you illustrate your collection.&nbsp; You can privately register the domain so that it&#039;s invisible to a &quot;whois lookup&quot;.&nbsp; This way you can create a digital library of your collection.&nbsp; You can even add maps showing the size of the different Kingdoms under various Kings such as Athelwulf or Alfred the Great, or William I.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also people sometimes think of coins as &quot;an investment&quot;.&nbsp; Reasons against this are the static or decreasing demographics of those types of people who care about Western Civilization in Europe, UK, or the USA.&nbsp; Factors for this are the increasing availability of knowledge and coins as markers of history, particularly since the advent of the internet.&nbsp; Also coins appear to be a way of passing some &quot;hobby remnants&quot; to one&#039;s children, where they can squirrel them away in a box unlike old furniture.&nbsp; Finally since many are made of silver, gold, or other valuable metals (Gadolinium or Iridium), they may offer an inflationary hedge in a world where everyone is printing paper money with abandon.</p><p><br /></p><p>My son earlier this year collecting Brazil&#039;s 1st nickel coin (1871 200 reis) from a coin vendor in Republic Square; center city Sao Paulo.</p><p><img src="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/pix_coin/John-3_Brail-coin_05-2016_pt1_600px.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/pix_coin/John-3_Brail-coin_05-2016_pt2_450px.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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