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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3195751, member: 71723&quot;]Hey, &quot;Physics&quot; has been collecting 32 years. I&#039;ve been collecting for 55 years. He has a way he can collect that works for him. I have a (perhaps fairly unique, but it&#039;s the only place I have been) place that supports a way I collect that works for me. My collection includes over 50,000 single coins, not counting BU rolls which also represent a five-figure number of coins, and I&#039;ve bought MAYBE 40-50 of them over the Internet, total. And maybe 5 in the last three years. (Not counting U.S.Mint purchases, which I&#039;d still do by mail with a stamp if they still offered that option.)</p><p><br /></p><p>He likes photos, I don&#039;t trust them because I know how deceptive they can be. If that makes me a freak among numismatists, so freaking be it!!! I&#039;m happy doing it MY way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do my numismatic purchases overwhelmingly hand to hand, eye to eye, <i>mano a mano, </i>and I prefer to do BOTH my purchasing AND my numismatic education PRECISELY that way. I dissent from the prevailing Internet culture. I dislike it immensely.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am NOT blind. I see it is the future and the desire of many. I refuse to participate. That&#039;s all. And the Philly ANA convention was loaded to the gills with people who prefer to do it the way I do. RECORD attendance. In 2018. Go figure. Maybe because it was in MY neck of the woods. Think that might be &quot;a thing&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>We are VERY different here, and we are keenly aware we are. Not even Chicago, Denver or Anaheim could hold a candle to Philly in terms of raw attendance, and you know what? They WON&#039;T either. The Denver and Anaheim ANA shows were a stinking embarrassment. Baltimore (even closer to me than Philly) packs people in three times a year! The Middle Atlantic and Northeastern states are the Mac Daddy king of numismatics. &quot;Old school&quot; not only LIVES here, it THRIVES![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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