apush
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- Dec 21, 2009
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My Rant:
I have viewed a few posts whereas folks "mark" coins. I am assuming that individuals practice this as a means to forgo repeating viewing the same coin twice (or thrice). In otherwords, a physical mark has been permanently etched on the coin. That's how I have interpreted the marking of coins. If I am
incorrect, please stop reading and just go to the next post--and I will beg ignorance.
As a historian, and please do correct me if I am wrong, I find this practice inappropriate. Why? Well, coins are history. To me, and again I may be in the minority--which, well, I often am, it seems that we are destroying not only a piece of art, but part of our cultural history. Each coin has been carried in hundreds and thousands of pockets in and out of our great nation and around the world and back again. To alter or mame our currency--I just can't understand it and I will not do it. Lastly, and yes, I am new but I feel like I have the right to blow off steam just like any other person living in a democracy, can't they read the date, mint mark, etc.--then just throw it in the pile to the dump bank? I am shaking my head. It must be obvious to anyone who read this post that I am out of the loop and I just don't get it.
apush
I have viewed a few posts whereas folks "mark" coins. I am assuming that individuals practice this as a means to forgo repeating viewing the same coin twice (or thrice). In otherwords, a physical mark has been permanently etched on the coin. That's how I have interpreted the marking of coins. If I am
incorrect, please stop reading and just go to the next post--and I will beg ignorance.
As a historian, and please do correct me if I am wrong, I find this practice inappropriate. Why? Well, coins are history. To me, and again I may be in the minority--which, well, I often am, it seems that we are destroying not only a piece of art, but part of our cultural history. Each coin has been carried in hundreds and thousands of pockets in and out of our great nation and around the world and back again. To alter or mame our currency--I just can't understand it and I will not do it. Lastly, and yes, I am new but I feel like I have the right to blow off steam just like any other person living in a democracy, can't they read the date, mint mark, etc.--then just throw it in the pile to the dump bank? I am shaking my head. It must be obvious to anyone who read this post that I am out of the loop and I just don't get it.
apush
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