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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 487157, member: 6370&quot;]Coin shows and shops are fine but the reality is, I buy far more coins on a regular basis for the small amount of shows to ever be anything but a fun little trip downtown a few times a year. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for coin shops, they are few and far between here, all are severely lacking in world and ancients. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The internet took the place of catalog shopping which was the only way to get the coins I wanted at one time. I have a pretty big stack of catalogs that most of my earliest bought coins come from...now we have a much easier alternative. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Its far from lazy I would think...its just a newer way and happens to be much easier than driving all day looking for a coin I might want, but never finding it because people in this city only care about US and Mexican coins. To collect without buying from all over the world I would be forced to buy US, Mexican, or the crap in the world coin jar. Nothing against the US coins because I like all coins including US. Its the US coin market I dont like...its not the coins fault <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Plus all the other benefits. I can share my collection with everyone, get info easier without buying a bunch of books and catalogs (with money I coild be using to buy coins), and I can chat with other collectors while at one time I was all alone in the hobby, I knew no other collectors and just did it on my own.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With he internet I can buy coins from all over the world much easier, sometimes a coin type is more common there than here so they are much cheaper...notgeld is a prime example...I am told they are much more common in Germany and Europe but in the US they are rather rare.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think those who say its not going anywhere are dead on. Its not going to become the next big thing but it wont die out.... if there is a lull and less people than before....rejoice because there are less collectors wanting the same things you want. If there is a boom...then maybe 1% of that boom might stick with it and carry it on with any passion (some of them might stop then rediscover it later like said before)...There is your new blood. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It might just be because I am new to the &#039;hobby&#039; as a whole with this greater amount of communication, seeing it as a part of a group thing and not an individual thing, but I have been collecting for some time now and it seems to me to only be gaining people of different levels of passion. You will always have collectors and those who just dont get it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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