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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3195751, member: 71723"]Hey, "Physics" has been collecting 32 years. I'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'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'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'd still do by mail with a stamp if they still offered that option.)</p><p><br /></p><p>He likes photos, I don't trust them because I know how deceptive they can be. If that makes me a freak among numismatists, so freaking be it!!! I'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'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 "a thing"?</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'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. "Old school" not only LIVES here, it THRIVES![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3195751, member: 71723"]Hey, "Physics" has been collecting 32 years. I'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'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'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'd still do by mail with a stamp if they still offered that option.) He likes photos, I don't trust them because I know how deceptive they can be. If that makes me a freak among numismatists, so freaking be it!!! I'm happy doing it MY way. 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. I am NOT blind. I see it is the future and the desire of many. I refuse to participate. That'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 "a thing"? 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'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. "Old school" not only LIVES here, it THRIVES![/QUOTE]
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