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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1473735, member: 22004&quot;]A lawyer friend had this to say about coin dealers:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I have noted that, in the past at least, whenever I went into coin or stamp stores, the owner operators tended to be corpulent, self-important, gasbags, that unless you are ready to cater to their whims and make a large dollar purchase, tend to view you with the same disdain as gum stuck to their shoe.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;My family used to collect stamps - just as a fun hobby, but the attitude of those running coin and stamp stores sucked a large amount of the joy out of it. Probably also explains why the average age of a stamp or coin collector is somewhere between 50 and dead.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>As Doug Winter has said, the world of numismatics and coin collecting has an image problem. I have known quite a few ethical, helpful and humble coin dealers and shop owners. How pervasive is this image problem and is it getting better as dealers have tried to be more helpful and responsive?</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;&quot;&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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