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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3104174, member: 19463&quot;]I suspect shows will last as long as I do so there is no problem for me.&nbsp; What I see as a problem is the trends all take the coin out of the loop.&nbsp; Rather than handling the coin, we buy from a photo.&nbsp; Rather than handling a coin, we buy it in a slab.&nbsp; Rather than wanting coins we can afford, we want things that only come in fakes in our price bracket but many of us seem driven to buying a chance of a fake turning out to be real and can&#039;t tell the difference anyway.&nbsp; Maybe we are nearing the point in the hobby when what you really want is a bunch of photos of other people&#039;s coins and mass market new bits on wonderful things in museums we might visit.&nbsp; This would be music to the ears of those who oppose private ownership of coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; The hobby is not dying but it is getting hard to recognize.&nbsp; Come to think of it, the world in general may be getting hard to recognize for old people who are not willing to change with the times.&nbsp; It has worked that way since ancient coins were new.&nbsp; Situation normal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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