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Message:: [QUOTE="zumbly, post: 6278355, member: 57495"]I wasn't collecting pre-internet, but a few years ago, I was fortunate enough to take over from [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] some stacks of folders containing hundreds of paper clippings related to ancient coin collecting that he had saved from the 70s to 90s.  For me many of them are a fascinating window into that period of time in the hobby. From February 1976, a Roman "Coin Trends" price guide and report featuring comments by Ira Goldberg, Alex Malloy, Joel Malter and Charles Wolfe:[ATTACH=full]1248659[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1248663[/ATTACH] Circa 1980 Numismatic Fine Arts brochure touting the investability of ancient coins:[ATTACH=full]1248660[/ATTACH] Opinion piece by Arnold Saslow decrying the evils of buyer's premium in 1983, a time when the biggest US auction houses - NFA, Superior and Stack's - apparently charged buyers in their auctions zero fees when they won a coin.  (side note: if that's Saslow in the byline picture wearing Roman armour, I'd loved to have had him as my dealer)[ATTACH=full]1248661[/ATTACH] Worldwide Treasure Bureau Price list from 1988, from where you could make  purchases to fill your Twelve Caesars set, sight unseen:[ATTACH=full]1248662[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]