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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midtncoin, post: 2939312, member: 89569&quot;]I found this very interesting.&nbsp; I recently renewed my membership to the ANA after a many-year absence, and for the first time I decided to take advantage of the <i>Numismatist</i> online archives.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been going through and reading some of the copies from the 19th century and some of what&#039;s in those early editions is fascinating!&nbsp; For example, I found this one statement by the original writer of his disdain for collecting series by dates.&nbsp; I quote in full:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;We have frequent calls for the U.S. series of dates.&nbsp; We have our own good reasons for not collecting a series of dates. We believe in collecting only distinct varieties.&nbsp; The field is large enough and replete with a vast variety of beautiful and interesting designs and we see no necessity of a collector spending his time and money over an interminable series of dates.&nbsp; Stop the foolishness.&nbsp; If you want varieties we have them; don&#039;t ask us for dates for we are not in the fruit business.&quot;</p><p><i>The Numismatist, January/February 1889, Pg. 11</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Thing have certainly changed since then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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