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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4307349, member: 110350"]I've been posting here only a little more than two months, and, although I've primarily posted in the Ancient Coins forum, I've also posted now and then in the World Coins forum.  And there's no question in my mind that at least currently, the Ancient Coins forum is far more active, in terms of both the number of new threads per day, and the number of comments per thread. I don't think this is such a new trend, though.  At least in the USA, collecting "foreign" coins has always been a relatively minor, niche area of the hobby.  I should know, having spent 25 years or so actively collecting British coins and historical medals (perhaps the most popular kind of foreign coins in the USA except for Canadian coins) from here in New York, and finding that it was a rather solitary pastime!  I can't really comment on the relative popularity of ancient vs. world coins over the last several decades, since I bought the former only very sporadically until a few years ago.  I will say that based only on personal recollection, and not on any research, I used to go to the NYINC shows every couple of years starting in the 1990s, and it always seemed to me that there were as many tables devoted to ancient coins as there were to all kinds of world coins put together, and the ancient tables always seemed more crowded with visitors than the others.[/QUOTE]