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Message:: [QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7787967, member: 115909"]Do you have any information about how much money is spent on Native American objects every year compared to ancient coins? I’d be very interested to see how wrong I am about the ancient coin market being smaller. People keep getting annoyed/angry with what I say but only after they interpret what I say to mean something else than what I meant. 175K people visiting a show doesn’t mean that they all bought something. It just means many people were interested in seeing some of that stuff. When I talk about the market being bigger for ancient coins I’m referring to how much is actually spent on them yearly compared to Native American stuff. It has nothing to do with the culture itself but the historical fact is that Native Americans used more ephemeral materials for most of their stuff. Go to Rome and you’ll see tons of buildings from ancient times because they were made of things like stone, concrete and marble that lasts millenia but that’s not the case with Native American buildings because they used organic things like plants & animals to make most things. Same with their currency of cowry shells and such. A silver/gold coin is much more likely to last through the centuries than the shell of an organism. It’s also important to remember the Romans & Greeks mass produced things like coins. Native Americans did not.[/QUOTE]