Brazilian national museum fire

"Someone must answer for this": I highly doubt that.

 

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I suppose that is better than nothing

 

While we're on the topic of private ownership, it is within our collective power to strategically challenge one archaeologist/academic complaint about private ownership: that collectors keep their coins locked-away, unavailable for study and research. I would urge collectors to put their collections online in a scholarly way: i.e. with good quality photos, accurate weights, size measurements and descriptions. Let's eliminate one argument from the academic arsenal. I've been gradually building a Forum gallery with my Roman Republic collection. It may not be the best presentation, but it's a start. i know many of you have your own websites that showcase your collections. Kudos to you. We should all follow your example.

 

We are the curators of our collections, tenderly abided to, solemnly owned and shared among this community. We've got stuff here (on these forums) that would rival any museum..........lets keep it that way.

 

I agree. I began collecting ancient coins while in high school. Collecting greatly accelerated my reading and self-learning about ancient history, and, ultimately, encouraged me to study classical civilization and ancient history in college. I doubt that I would have pursued that area of collegiate study but for the coin collecting.

 

Obrigado, @RAGNAROK! Unfortunately, an accident waiting to happen...

 

The culture has to change, I believe that digital museums are way better for the world anyhow, the internet can expand all it wants and interested people can search for what they want, I'm always pushing museums to digitise their collections and numismatists studying coins can also benefit from this (especially if they add metallurgical reports), sadly some museums such as the British Museum care more about profit and copyright than preserving human history and culture.

 

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