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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2787128, member: 19463&quot;]Your &#039;good&#039; article is heavily biased toward the interests of those who want to make coin collecting illegal.&nbsp; One tool they want to use to destroy the hobby is establishing the expectation that coins should carry a provenance proving they are not recent.&nbsp; This may be fine for expensive items that were recorded and photographed in the pre digital era but the coins I collect are rarely accompanied by such a paper trail simply because they are worth less than the paper would cost.&nbsp; For example, I bought the coin below in the early 1960&#039;s probably for $2 because that was the price I usually had to pay for junk denarii from a dish on the counter of a walk up coin shop in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.&nbsp; I do not know the date, name of the shop or the old man who ran it.&nbsp; He had hundreds of coins (maybe thousands) including many that were, like this, not identified other than a tag in the dish that said $2 each.&nbsp; Now, I am expected to be able to prove where it came from?&nbsp; Coins like this allowed high school kids like me to collect genuine Roman coins for less than the price of a tank of gasoline (about a quarter per gallon then but tanks were bigger) or all the White Castle hamburgers I could down.&nbsp; Today, gas is more, burgers are more and coins are more but it still costs time/money to record every sale to the level that those who would destroy the hobby expect.&nbsp; It costs the same to do the paperwork on a $50 coin as on a $5000 coin.&nbsp; If the minimum price of all coins is inflated by ridiculous tracking requirements, there will be no kids getting interested in a hobby where the papers cost more than the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]646324[/ATTACH] </p><p>I bought this one instead of the other hundred odd coins in the pickout pot so it is the one that got photographed first in 1963.&nbsp; The others are now to be considered &#039;new finds&#039; because they were bought by other kids who don&#039;t even remember the little I do about the provenance.&nbsp; Yes, I did buy this one because it was an overstrike.&nbsp; I was just as weird in the 60&#039;s as I am today.&nbsp; I do not have a receipt stating I bought a Domna over Commodus from XYZ Coin in 1960 for $2.&nbsp; I never thought to ask whether this or other coins in that pot came from an old collection or fresh from the dirt.&nbsp; At that time, &#039;Politically Correct&#039; was more a matter of whether you thought Nixon should have given back his dog Checkers.&nbsp; Coins were not on the radar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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