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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2755117, member: 71723&quot;]Let me put some of this nonsense to bed right away. The ANA is an educational numismatic organization and IS NOT ALLOWED TO &quot;LOBBY&quot; ANY GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY OVER ANYTHING WHATSOEVER!!!!! It did not simply create itself and is not a trade association.&nbsp; It was CREATED by a Charter given to it for educational purposes by the Congress of the United States. In that regard, it is like the American Red Cross or the Boy Scouts of America.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its mission properly includes INFORMING members of advocacy issues involved with numismatics, but NOT (as in &quot;NEVER EVER&quot;) advocating on them per se.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for &quot;benefits&quot;, the biggest is the Library, the most complete numismatic lending library in the world. For me, my Liberty Mutual discount pays my dues each year all by itself. But nothing can quite compare with CoinTalk, because here I get access to the most vast repository of numismatic truth, wisdom, and purity - &quot;Sayings From Chairman baseball21&quot;. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> It is, of course, magnified by the liner notes offered by [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the choice between collecting without the ANA or collecting without the Internet, the Internet loses out by several astronomical units.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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