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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1811809, member: 112&quot;]clad - it&#039;s been many years, but can you recall some of the discussions that you and I have been involved with in the past ? Not so much between you and I, but more the ones that you and I were involved in. Specifically I&#039;m talking about the fact that in different periods of time there has always been at least some disdain among collectors for the modern coins of that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, say it was 1850, the coins that most collectors wanted to collect back then were the coins of the past. They really didn&#039;t have any interest in collecting coins minted in the recent preceding decades. They wanted the old coins, the classics of their day. Coins from the 1700&#039;s, 1600&#039;s and even earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only point I am making, same one I made years ago, is that it is human nature to be this way. When it comes to collecting many people want to collect things that they at least think are valuable. And most people seem to equate the age of an item with value. Yes of course it is a mistake to do that, but most people aren&#039;t aware that it is a mistake. </p><p><br /></p><p>Be all that as it may, there has always been a certain portion, ableit smaller, of the collector community that has collected moderns. That was true in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds, and before, otherwise we could not have the coins from those periods that we have today. And it is true today.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the fact that this is true provides us all with a valuable lesson. That being that those who do collect moderns are doing all of the collectors of the future a huge favor. For a hundred years from now the coins that we call moderns today, will no longer be moderns. And it is almost a certainty that they will be sought out and cherished by the collectors of tomorrow. It has after all happened over and over and over again throughout history. And there no reason to expect it to ever change <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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