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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;andyj107, post: 20073, member: 1507&quot;]to mmarotta--</p><p>Unfortunately the reality is that this impersonal internet is the future.&nbsp; There will always be shows, there may or may not be brick-and-mortar shops, but people who want to trade coins will do the great majority of their trading in venues like ebay.&nbsp; I see &quot;the coin dealer&quot; as we know him/her ceasing to exist.&nbsp; There will only be trader/collectors like myself who are concerned mainly with improving their own collections and meeting interesting people who share their interests (and email meetings can be just as intriquing, if not more so, than flesh-and-blood ones).</p><p><br /></p><p>I love the romance of the coin shop.&nbsp; I&#039;ll never forget the first time I walked into the local nook, musty and dusty and a little scary, probably nine or ten years old, with a pocketful of loose change from my paper route, looking to buy that AG 1836 Half dollar with the x scratched across the face&nbsp; --pirate treasure?&nbsp; (I still have that coin). In traveling around the country and some little bit of the rest of the world I always make it a point to stop in at the local coin shop, and I never fail to recapture that wonderful feeling. . .</p><p><br /></p><p>But things change. . . My, how they change.&nbsp; Eventually, internet trading will have to provide that kind of intrique and romance, or the hobby will be completely swallowed by the mega-monsters of coin marketing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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