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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2390753, member: 19463&quot;]I can not feel sorry for a hobby that bemoans the lack of young people and at te same time tells them that they should be buying only FDC coins or slabbed items starting at $50 of which $40 is for the plastic.&nbsp; When I was in high school, dealers at shops had dishes of 50 cent bronzes and $2 denarii of a grade now worth ten times those numbers but considered uncollectable by so many.&nbsp; I am proud of our young people who can find interest in the 5th century AE4&#039;s and tell the rottens from the Ricimers or the really scrungy lead shards that conditions snobs like me don&#039;t even like.&nbsp; It is unlikely that we will have 20 year old experts in Pescennius Niger or third century gold multiples but we will have a crop of students with 50 years in the hobby in 2066 only if we get them going now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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