Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2890929, member: 19463&quot;]Most museums don&#039;t want donations that are not accompanied by a cash donation that will fund the building and maintenance of the display as well as the staff member to curate them in perpetuity.&nbsp; They would be happy to get the coins and sell them to fund their exhibit of TV memorabilia but cataloging and security for your coins would make them a liability for a museum where each square inch is expected to produce heavy traffic of visitors.&nbsp; Who wants to see junky old coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the idea of showing two like coins together a long as the coins are correctly selected to be &#039;like&#039;.&nbsp; The other answer is to produce painted plaster casts of the other side.&nbsp; It is quite an &#039;art&#039; form.&nbsp; I attended a 1987 travelling exhibit of Roman &#039;coins&#039; associated with Germany when it visited the Smithsonian.&nbsp; There was not a real coin in the show.&nbsp; All were plaster.&nbsp; However well they were done, I felt gypped.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought (and still have) the catalog of the exhibit authored by a guy who had been graduated from the same college as I but a year ahead of me and somehow had escaped the draft.&nbsp; I, for the first time, was glad the Army had saved me from a life in museums for which I had hoped.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in