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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1915341, member: 26302&quot;]David Bowers is in it only for the profit? He is probably the most prolific numismatic writer. David Sear? </p><p><br /></p><p>Many numismatic researchers become dealers to be able to be around coins they love. Becoming a dealer is not some kind of transformational act that sucks the soul out of a person. Like everything, there are good and bad ones. There are HSN, Coin Vault, and people of their ilk who will sell you a Morgan, a used pinto, or a copier. They simply do not care, they are snake oil salesmen out to make a buck any way they can. Sure, I hate, hate, HATE those SOBs. Most true collectors hate them, but they always exist since so many people are simply lazy and refuse to educate themselves. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, to impugn men like David Bowers or David Sear, two dealers who have brought to light so much knowledge as to literally transform our hobby, I violently object to. Go back over most good coin books. MOST are written by people who were dealers. If I want an opinion on a coin, I will ask a good coin dealer. Do you really think anyone knows more about indian head cents than Rick Snow? Is Rick Snow evil because he sells coins, so no one should listen to what the man knows? What about David Sear, the single most knowledgable man on earth concerning ancient coins. Should his opinion and writing be tosse on the proverbial bonfire since he had the audacity to sell collectors coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>I am just not getting why you hate dealers so much. Is it that they disagree with you on your position about modern coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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