I got this in the mail yesterday; since I've been unable to attend a meeting for a few months, I opened it to see what I had missed. Some people who read this blog will find the first paragraph as peculiar as I did; the rest of you may not want to ask.
Uh... LARPs have what to do with coin collecting? Maybe it was explained in the meeting before last...
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the same as David...perhaps they are trying to say that all of the more "marginalized" hobbies attract the same (type of) people?
ReplyDeleteIn other words, are all numismatics so geeky that they must love RPG's, LARPS and whatever else?
Actually, after a few minutes of consideration, the probable explanation occurred to me.
ReplyDeleteI have in my collection a bronze University of St. Hildegard coin, which after some research I learned was a dollar coin created for use at Society for Creative Anachronism events, like Renaissance Fairs.
I'm fairly certain that this guy's presentation must have been on coins minted for use by LARPers, SCAers, and similar hobbyists. There is, I believe, a cottage industry for such things.
I have read articles by people who try to reproduce ancient minting methods. They are very difficult to reproduce; it's difficult even to get any sort of halfway presentable coin by just setting out on your own, as a numismatist or historian, tinkering in your garage with home-made steel dies and metal blanks.
...to continue that thought...
ReplyDeleteSo some people attempt to mint coins on their own either as part of a LARP-like hobby, or as part of their study of medieval or ancient coins. Some attempts are pretty good, but must don't come out too great. But now there are companies that create coins for people to use in LARPs and the like.