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What You've learned about History through Coin Collecting

I have to say I've a lot about how our people have changed and how society has become so different than what it was 100 years ago. Before technology, their were letters, and before clad, their was silver. How supply and demand and growth of population have changed coinage and the world.... free to discuss.
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One of my favorite pieces of numismatic history related to the introduction of Fraser's Type 1 Buffalo nickel. Between coin vending machine executives trying to get it stopped because the Buffalo didn't work in their machines and Barber doing his best to submarine the Buffalo's introduction, it's a wonder the coin ever came out. Fraser's frustration level was completely justified -- a great numismatic piece of art by a brilliant artist was undermined at every turn by people of lesser or no artistic talent.
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<< <i>A lot -- that's one of the main reasons I am a collector.
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+1 American colonial history, civil war history, the Roman Empire, Irish history.....the reason I got into collecting.
Tom
<< <i>A lot -- that's one of the main reasons I am a collector.
One of my favorite pieces of numismatic history related to the introduction of Fraser's Type 1 Buffalo nickel. Between coin vending machine executives trying to get it stopped because the Buffalo didn't work in their machines and Barber doing his best to submarine the Buffalo's introduction, it's a wonder the coin ever came out. Fraser's frustration level was completely justified -- a great numismatic piece of art by a brilliant artist was undermined at every turn by people of lesser or no artistic talent. >>
It's also a wonder how it escaped the religious inscription plague all the way to its end.
That IS the old days judging from some recent issues.
Eric
OK - here is a link to a prior thread that I started that appears relevant to the question.
History and the Carson City Mint
that it repeats itself and we often don't notice.
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<< <i>One thing I enjoy is associating the date on a coin by the president that was sitting at the time. >>
That's a great idea.
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.My current approach is to learn a small amount of the history behind the coin before I buy it, then to really dive in once I acquire it. This prevents me from getting my hopes up in the event I'm outbid. With my recently shared centerpiece (in this thread) the extent of my knowledge about it prior to acquiring the coin was the detail I shared in that post. However, I've now written 5+ pages on a more complete history of the events of the Ides of March, learning a tremendous amount along the way.
On the darkside, I post a weekly thread detailing a coin in my collection with a historical writeup. It often takes quite a while to trudge through the history books to find the information, and reading old historical texts is tiresome in many cases. I try to keep my writeups lighter while still containing the depth of detail, but not so much as to lose people.
Whether collecting US, world, or ancients, coins are a wonderful way to share history and to transport ones self back to the past.
Mix in coinage metals, Mint shenanigans, political history (Bland-Allison, Crime of '73, clad coinage . . .etc.) and it is hard to find anything out there that so completely embodies our country, or the world for that matter.
Simply fascinating . . . .
Drunner
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<< <i>A lot -- that's one of the main reasons I am a collector.
One of my favorite pieces of numismatic history related to the introduction of Fraser's Type 1 Buffalo nickel. Between coin vending machine executives trying to get it stopped because the Buffalo didn't work in their machines and Barber doing his best to submarine the Buffalo's introduction, it's a wonder the coin ever came out. Fraser's frustration level was completely justified -- a great numismatic piece of art by a brilliant artist was undermined at every turn by people of lesser or no artistic talent. >>
It's also a wonder how it escaped the religious inscription plague all the way to its end. >>
Indeed.
I actually migrated more heavily to stamps about 20 years ago because of the history component.