BTW. I just got their catalog. Looks like there’s quite the deal on circulated cents, only a dollar a piece. Better rush to eBay and buy 500 and save $450. I’d say try the board and look at the BST... welcome to the twilight zone 😳
Well there goes my heritage as an Italian American. Some idiots in the day wanted to rule the world from Rome and killed Jesus. We certainly need to cover that up as well I guess??????? U get the point I hope ✌️
Sure everyone is entitled to their opinion. The OPinion seemed to be that he didn't want to support a vendor who's profiting off of such collectibles (which very likely could be sold to people who glorify those regimes), and he felt so passionate about his stance that he a) destroyed valuable items with Hitler's face on them, b) drew the line there and didn't destroy other Nazi era memorabilia, and c) wanted to inform others in his community about the vendor he is boycotting so they can be informed if they deal with them. Respect.
Not to keep the thread alive longer than necessary, but I just heard a recent statistic that 2/3 of young people don't know anything about the Holocaust.
I will say that my various collecting interests (coins and otherwise) open many doors for me and expand my knowledge immeasurably when I do research on items in my collection.
@JBK said:
Not to keep the thread alive longer than necessary, but I just heard a recent statistic that 2/3 of young people don't know anything about the Holocaust.
I will say that my various collecting interests (coins and otherwise) open many doors for me and expand my knowledge immeasurably when I do research on items in my collection.
I believe you are referring to this study: https://www.pewforum.org/2020/01/22/what-americans-know-about-the-holocaust/. As today's click-bait media is prone to do, headlines and articles are misleading. In summary, over 80% of US adults could correctly answer an open ended question about what the Holocaust was. I couldn't find exact number for teenagers, but they only performed slightly worse in the multiple choice questions.
However, less than half of US adults correctly answered a multiple choice question on the approximate number of Jews killed. So there were headlines like "Less than half of Americans know the Nazis killed 6 million Jews!". So the implication is that they didn't know about the Nazis mass murder when really they incorrectly guessed the actual number killed.
@chesterb said:
I've turned down Nazi junk myself. I don't want that crap in my collection!
I'm happy to buy it and take power away from these modern day monsters. The more we melt the better. There's an unsurprising amount of coin dealers happy to melt the wartime stuff.
My people were decimated by the Nazis. We grew up in the 80s hearing stories of "aunts and uncles" who were really just family friends, who became family because everyone else was murdered. We didn't have real aunts and uncles anyway because they got killed, too. So, we were family by necessity, when there was no one left.
We heard the stories of the disappearings and how neighbors would just make up stories about undesirable neighbors and they'd be gone. Just like that. Or if you fancied the lads or lasses the "wrong" way you were an untouchable until you were killed. And some people cheered it on.
It's terrifying being a kid and listening to family stories about launching asymmetrical warfare against real life monsters. This was decades of intergenerational trauma from "a few short years" of slaughter.
I will buy it when I have the opportunity. It's one less piece of gold or silver these people have. If this is the only thing I can do in this life to make a substantial difference to bring power back to my people, and away from them, screw it, I'm down to buy all day. I feel it would be an insult to my fathers and countrymen who got killed by those bastards and their sympathizers and secret police. I will buy it all day every day until these kinda people have nothing, or are gone, or both.
Plus, every piece you pluck out of a junk bin, is one less mote of power these people have and one less opportunity they have to hurt or frighten the next person.
It's not the history that sucks it's the persisting hate that is the problem. And you know that, they know that, and I know that. To make it about anything else is disingenuous and wastes everybody's valuable time. What an insult to everyone's intelligence, jesus christ.
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BTW. I just got their catalog. Looks like there’s quite the deal on circulated cents, only a dollar a piece. Better rush to eBay and buy 500 and save $450. I’d say try the board and look at the BST... welcome to the twilight zone 😳
Just checked the site......they did you a favor.
Too bad you didn't notice that listing the first time you visited the site.
I guess you should avoid a lot of British coinage. There is a reason Mary I is known as "Bloody Mary." Ditto for Elizabeth I.
Well there goes my heritage as an Italian American. Some idiots in the day wanted to rule the world from Rome and killed Jesus. We certainly need to cover that up as well I guess??????? U get the point I hope ✌️
I guess you don't accept or spend $20 bills either. Jackson was responsible for the Trail of Tears and the Indian Removal Act.
Yeah, they also sell your information to anyone who wants to send you coin related junk mail. Bastards.
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That is truly shocking!
Sure everyone is entitled to their opinion. The OPinion seemed to be that he didn't want to support a vendor who's profiting off of such collectibles (which very likely could be sold to people who glorify those regimes), and he felt so passionate about his stance that he a) destroyed valuable items with Hitler's face on them, b) drew the line there and didn't destroy other Nazi era memorabilia, and c) wanted to inform others in his community about the vendor he is boycotting so they can be informed if they deal with them. Respect.
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Not to keep the thread alive longer than necessary, but I just heard a recent statistic that 2/3 of young people don't know anything about the Holocaust.
I will say that my various collecting interests (coins and otherwise) open many doors for me and expand my knowledge immeasurably when I do research on items in my collection.
why worry about two guys who are freaking worm food? when you can worry about what is around you, focus on what you can control not what you can't
they and those involved in whatever happened paid for their crimes one way or another so let the past rest and move on to the present and future
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I believe you are referring to this study: https://www.pewforum.org/2020/01/22/what-americans-know-about-the-holocaust/. As today's click-bait media is prone to do, headlines and articles are misleading. In summary, over 80% of US adults could correctly answer an open ended question about what the Holocaust was. I couldn't find exact number for teenagers, but they only performed slightly worse in the multiple choice questions.
However, less than half of US adults correctly answered a multiple choice question on the approximate number of Jews killed. So there were headlines like "Less than half of Americans know the Nazis killed 6 million Jews!". So the implication is that they didn't know about the Nazis mass murder when really they incorrectly guessed the actual number killed.
I heard it on the radio but it is probably the same source.
The stats can get confusing, and if that's their only mistake I'd feel more reassured.
Wasn’t it Mark Twain that said;
Lies, damned lies and statistics?
I'm happy to buy it and take power away from these modern day monsters. The more we melt the better. There's an unsurprising amount of coin dealers happy to melt the wartime stuff.
My people were decimated by the Nazis. We grew up in the 80s hearing stories of "aunts and uncles" who were really just family friends, who became family because everyone else was murdered. We didn't have real aunts and uncles anyway because they got killed, too. So, we were family by necessity, when there was no one left.
We heard the stories of the disappearings and how neighbors would just make up stories about undesirable neighbors and they'd be gone. Just like that. Or if you fancied the lads or lasses the "wrong" way you were an untouchable until you were killed. And some people cheered it on.
It's terrifying being a kid and listening to family stories about launching asymmetrical warfare against real life monsters. This was decades of intergenerational trauma from "a few short years" of slaughter.
I will buy it when I have the opportunity. It's one less piece of gold or silver these people have. If this is the only thing I can do in this life to make a substantial difference to bring power back to my people, and away from them, screw it, I'm down to buy all day. I feel it would be an insult to my fathers and countrymen who got killed by those bastards and their sympathizers and secret police. I will buy it all day every day until these kinda people have nothing, or are gone, or both.
Plus, every piece you pluck out of a junk bin, is one less mote of power these people have and one less opportunity they have to hurt or frighten the next person.
It's not the history that sucks it's the persisting hate that is the problem. And you know that, they know that, and I know that. To make it about anything else is disingenuous and wastes everybody's valuable time. What an insult to everyone's intelligence, jesus christ.