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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3290709, member: 57463"]I am happy for you, but you have to consider Metro Detroit.  In Michigan, MSNS has 25 local member clubs. Of those, 12 are within 30 minutes of each other in the Metro Detroit area. Remember that Dr. George Heath lived in Monroe, Michigan, and that set the stage 125 years ago. I think that if we named names MSNS would give PAN a run for its money. . For me, it is apples and oranges. I grant you that you have a special circumstance in Red Rose. It is a highly respected local club. But it is unique. Not everyone everywhere can enjoy that. So, you are lucky to live where you do.  That said,  expertise is where you find it. We all have passions. Sociologists have long known that online people are less likely to be cowed by bravado, whereas in live meetings, dominant personalities monopolize the attention of an audience. As for the "ultra high end collectors" if you are speaking of price tags it just does not mean that much to me as the deep knowledge that comes from continued research over time. The best of both worlds, of course, is the researcher who buys the best of the best, the plate coins from books, and who knows the true history of them. And we have someone like that locally in a club that can't draw 20 members. But we have more than one of them here at CoinTalk.[/QUOTE]