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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3233125, member: 44316&quot;][USER=56842]@Dougmeister[/USER] , you are interested in ancient coins. The members participating in this forum are interested an ancient coins. But, an extremely low fraction of other people are interested in ancient coins. If you donate them to some group, they will not find any good use for them. Even a donation to a museum with no conditions attached will not get you what you want. You can&#039;t make people interested by giving them to a group that must store them away. Who would ask to see them?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have visited major museums with fabulous ancient coins on display and purposely sat for a while and watched to see how the other visitors reacted. Keep in mind these are visitors to a museum with a major section on antiquity and they chose to visit that part of the museum. Nevertheless, most skip the coins (perhaps because they are too small) entirely or spend at most a few seconds on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is, most people don&#039;t care about the types of things we collect. There is no chance a &quot;local&quot; group would get anything out of them (unless you let them sell them so they can get cash).</p><p><br /></p><p>You could buy low-grade but identifiable coins in bulk and attribute and give them away to kids or adults (at church?). I have a friend who does this for kids at gun shows where he has a table and promises them a second at the next show if they show up with any information about the first. I ask and he has never said anyone reappeared.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have had occasion to lecture at a university and at a university museum about ancient coins to groups specifically interested in antiquity and given away identified coins and given them ways to contact me if they wanted to follow up. I&#039;ve had one bite of any magnitude, and I&#039;m sure the gift leading to possession (that they didn&#039;t even know was possible) made the difference.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The simple fact is that our interest in coins is hardly transferable to others. (How many of us have spouses who are truly interested? Few.) Fortunately for us CT can bring together collectors from all over the world, the sum of which makes enough people to keep a forum going. It gives us a way to share our love of ancient coins. I hope you find loving them yourself and sharing them with us is enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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