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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 873043, member: 66&quot;]Frankly I would rather EAC remain low key and relatively &quot;unknown&quot;.&nbsp; It allows us to keep it more of a &quot;scholarly&quot; organization, and you have to realize that if a lot more people did come into the field most of the collectors and scholars would be forced out.&nbsp; These coins, especially the early dates, are just too scarce for the mainstream.&nbsp; Prices are already high but it would only take a relatively small increase in the number of collectors for todays high prices to triple or more.&nbsp; That happened in the Conder tokens.&nbsp; When I started collecting them prices were low and the Conder token club was just beginning.&nbsp; Ten years later even with only around five hundred members of the CTCC prices have more than quintupled and coins I used to buy for $20 are now pushing $150 to $200 and I&#039;ve pretty much been priced out of the market.&nbsp; If we had as many members as EAC does now i would not be surprised to see them at $1000 or more.&nbsp; Already more and more of the nicer EAC coins are already being siphoned off into the investor market and lost to the EACers.</p><p><br /></p><p>EAC is one of the few areas that still retains its old time fellowship that was so common back in the late 19th early 20th century.&nbsp; We care about the coin and the friends we share.&nbsp; I have never found a group as open, friendly and as eager to share what they know with beginners than EAC.&nbsp; We just love to share our coins. And there is something about trust in our small group.&nbsp; At my first EAC a dealer had a double row box of several hundred loose draped bust cents that I wanted to go through but his table was crowded.&nbsp; No problem he handed me the box and said &quot;There&#039;s an empty table over there on the other side of the room where can look at them.&quot; and he went back to his other customers.&nbsp; This was the first time I had ever met this dealer and he didn&#039;t know me from Adam, but I was EAC and that was good enough for him to trust me with an uninventoried box of cents worth maybe $8K. (This was a long time ago.&nbsp; Today that box would be over $50K.)&nbsp; The first EACer I met was in the hotel.&nbsp; He asked if I was there for EAC.&nbsp; I said yes and we started talking copper.&nbsp; The next thing I know i&#039;m holding (raw, slabs didn&#039;t exist at the time) two of the six known 1834 N-7 cents!&nbsp; Who the heck was I talking with!&nbsp; I&#039;m a 24 year old kid making less than $4K a year.&nbsp; He&#039;s a multi-millionare who collects middle dates by variety, but only the finest known specimens.&nbsp; And we are having a fine time.&nbsp; At the hospitallity get together I shared a table with some of the major names in the copper field and Walter Breen.&nbsp; He was passing around&nbsp; portions of the Early Date encylopedia manuscript and reading selections from the Cynics Dictionary.&nbsp; Things like this do not happen in any other group, and I am afraid if we really opened up we would lose this close friendliness.&nbsp; (And it&#039;s not just among ourselves either.&nbsp; Last year when we met in Cincinnati I overheard some of the hotel staff talking and and they were saying &quot;We get a lot of conventions here but not like these EAC people, they are just SO friendly!&quot;&nbsp; I&#039;ve never heard that from the hotel staff at any other coin convention.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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