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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3958273, member: 72790&quot;]Very nice post. I was very lucky to be a high school history teacher for 43 years. It gave me an opportunity to be the sponsor for the school&#039;s Stamp and Coin Club (very well attended way back when). But most of all I could incorporate my collection into my teaching, from ancients to post Civil War US (currency in that area, too). Whether my students were potential numismatists was immaterial. They were going to learn a great deal about different kinds of money and how and why this was important in history. I got a kick about teaching them this material and many of the kids seemed to like it (maybe just to please teacher) and a few would bring in their own to pass around and they were pleased as punch to be able to show off their modest collections. Handling coins of Alexander the Great, Augustus, Charlemagne, Elizabeth I, George III, Jefferson, the currency of Andrew Jackson , Lincoln and Jeff Davis, was the tangible link from them to us. As Thucydides put it we gave the past the honor of remembrance. Never once in those years of teaching did a student pocket any of these coins from the pages of coins or currency as they went around my classes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I very much miss that audience but I have found this website to be a pretty good substitute and its members, in addition to sharing their erudition, are kind enough to be gentle in their estimations of value, appeal, and collectability of others who post here. However, I must tell you that I am keeping track of those postings, they are being graded and at the end of the semester you will be tested on these postings and they WILL count toward your final grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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