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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4413013, member: 111237&quot;]I tend to agree with this. Numismatist need not collect. I seldom buy coins these days however that is because I collected a lot before and I buy very selectively here and there but never sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not concerned about filling holes, grading, errors or the coin market but those people who, say, seek to collect all the coins of Septimius Severus (a form of filling holes) and catalogs all the coin types they collect&nbsp; will inevitably become an expert on those coins and may contribute to the larger body of knowledge about the coinage of Rome and that ruler. Collectors, even those who hyper focus on a goal like filling holes, by sheer exposure become expert to a point over time and I would say an expert in some area of currency is a numismatist. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think, like art history, numismatics should be a formal academic area of study and inquiry as, like art, it is a human endeavour that is ubiquitous in human experience. </p><p><br /></p><p>The way I see it is all collectors inevitably become some form of a numismatist after enough experience however it is not necessary for a numismatist to collect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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