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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2201720, member: 19463&quot;]I fail to understand how documentation can separate the coins I paid $1 for in 1963 but have no receipt for, from the coins I have from the John Quincy Adams collection bulk lots (not illustrated or minutely described), from the ones I bought yesterday from an old bag including paper envelopes older than am but many coins loose in the bottom having fallen out over the time they were considered so much junk by the heirs of their last owner and the shop owner who bought them as a package with the things he wanted from grandpa&#039;s estate.&nbsp; In any event the only part of the hobby that will survive will be the high end slab sellers who can pay the additional $50 a coin needed to do the paperwork.&nbsp; All ancient coins are lost or stolen since none we have were dug up by the guy who buried them.&nbsp; Most of us with cash in our pockets have traces of cocaine:</p><p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.traces.money/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.traces.money/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.traces.money/</a></p><p>We are all criminal drug possessors and traffickers in stolen merchandise if you follow the politically correct extremists. The question is whether eventual laws will be crafted out of reason or result from the need to pass something that looks good whether it does good or not.&nbsp; Any law that assumes guilt unless innocence can be proven destroys a great deal more than a hobby enjoyed by too few people to matter to politicians.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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