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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 6291445, member: 19463&quot;]I also learned a lot from my books and auction/sales catalogs but wonder what will happen to them now.&nbsp; Few people would take what I have for the cost of the postage (they weigh a lot!).&nbsp; Today with huge resources like the CNG archives and the recent postings of major museums that are searchable, I am less certain of the continued value of my stack of Alex Malloy catalogs (interesting coins but lousy photos on poor paper) and a good number of lesser dealers from the last century.&nbsp; They may be of interest to people seeking provenances of those coins but the type information I got from them is easier to find online today.&nbsp; Many of my catalogs have a coded note on the cover telling me that it contained a legionary Septimius or an Eastern Domna, for example.&nbsp; Today we can do a search and find a hundred of what I may have had a dozen.&nbsp; I am also concerned if the great info we have online today will survive the lifetime of the auction houses.&nbsp; For that matter, will the British Museum and ANS online resources remain &#039;up&#039; in a hundred years or will they move away from coins like the Smithsonian did.&nbsp; Paper copies do not require a constant stream of electricity and paid staff to keep them in existence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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