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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8256799, member: 74282&quot;]That the ANS was going in this direction should have been obvious when Ute Wartenberg wrote a letter on ANS letterhead supporting MOU restrictions for US collectors and later became the president of the organization. Hopefully the appointment of Elkins, whose anti-collector feelings are well known, will at least be a wakeup call for some of their deep-pocketed donors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t get me wrong, the ANS has done and is doing some wonderful work, however the ANS has always worked closely with collectors and would not be what it is today without them and that&#039;s what&#039;s most bothering about this. I&#039;m not bothered as much by another anti-collector voice being given more clout as I am by this once great institution for numismatic scholarship blatantly losing track of what made it great. Ancient numismatic scholarship has always been based on the combined efforts of traditional academics and private collectors, many of whom were in fact not academic archaeologists or classicists by training but who brought their outside experience from careers in banking, engineering, medicine, finance or other trades(not to mention their funding) and provided insights and new methods of investigation to the field of numismatics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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