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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2618210, member: 83956&quot;]A thoughtful post, Sallent, which clearly struck a nerve. I was thinking today about this discussion board and how we post pictures of our coins for one another to comment on. I thought to myself that I could save a lot of money by just copying pictures of coins online and sharing those! But the reality behind the ridiculous notion is that once I have the coin in its flip, I rarely handle the physical object itself after that, and most often revisit the coin through its digital representation. Doing the tedious work of going back and weighing, measuring, photographing the coins and re-ordering their presentation reconnects me with the coins as physical objects. And that&#039;s a good thing. The main thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, in my cataloging system I always include a NOTES section for each coin. I try to write at least one interesting thing about the coin or the Emperor. Every coin tells a story, and this database field prompts me to learn and record such stories.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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