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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2891660, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m not sure that I disagree with their attitude.&nbsp; Museums are businesses.&nbsp; A few are tax supported but even those have to pander to popular desires to justify their funding.&nbsp; In times past, it seemed appropriate for government to tell people what they should find interesting - what was good for you - but now we count many bodies that want to see the leather jacket Fonzie wore on Happy Days and don&#039;t want to know about coins or, for that matter, old stuff.&nbsp; Many of the people I have met in coin clubs think Indian Head cents are &#039;ancient&#039; because they are older than they can remember spending.&nbsp; Should we spend tax money building museums and paying curators so show things tax payers don&#039;t want to see?&nbsp; The answer to that has changed in my lifetime.&nbsp; We will never agree on what government should be doing on bigger things than coins.&nbsp; What hope is there for coins?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These days we have a new option for plastic replica food/coins.&nbsp; Modern museums are spending a small part of their budget putting up web sites where the entire world can see a million items from their collection for what previously was spent on a selection of items for people living close to their brick and mortar space.&nbsp; I will never travel to the British Museum or a thousand smaller ones in places farther than I will travel so these websites are the museums of my personal future.&nbsp; My personal best interests would be served by people not being able to give away their coins but just sending them to market where I can buy the ones the rest of you don&#039;t want worse than I do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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