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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul Chouan, post: 7464364, member: 93775&quot;]On another recent thread, dougsmit wrote: “Perhaps the hobby is headed to a place where people interested in studying the coins will populate their &#039;collections&#039; from the online photo files without the necessity of there even being an actual piece of metal involved”. He called such people ‘crypto-collectors’. </p><p><br /></p><p>This has more to be said for it than may first appear. No buyer’s remorse, no hassle of&nbsp; insuring, storing and re-selling the coins, no estate problems, and plenty of opportunity to build a scholarly, world-class collection just from downloadable images, in this great age of numismatic photography. Older collectors in particular will see the advantages of being able to enlarge the image of a very small coin rather than straining at a loupe. </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not suggesting that this will or should take the place of acquiring hard metal, but I can see every collector supplementing a collection with a crypto-collection. There are so many interesting areas in numismatics and so much to learn – if you specialize in acquiring, say, Byzantine bronzes, why not have a crypto-collection of Republican denarii or German States crowns?</p><p><br /></p><p>Do any of you have ‘tales from the crypto’? Or any views thereon?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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