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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3192381, member: 19463&quot;]I certainly agree with the above but I care less about how and where you gain that &#039;book learnin&#039;.&nbsp; When we old guys were learning the basics of coins, there were two ways.&nbsp; One was face to face conversation with &#039;older&#039; collectors who filled our ears with wonderful things whenever we saw them at coin clubs or shows.&nbsp; The other was the written word (books, magazines, catalogs).&nbsp; Twenty+ years ago both Valentinian and I decided to dip our toes in this new fangled Internet thing and started our web pages.&nbsp; Nothing makes me happier when I hear from someone that I had something to do with their becoming interested or even educated in our subject.&nbsp; Books have been made for a few thousand years.&nbsp; Online materials on ancient coins older than our two sites are hard to find.&nbsp; It is a new way of doing the old thing: spreading knowledge.&nbsp; My favorite college professor said, &quot;It is more fun to know than not to know.&quot;&nbsp; He was right but never wrote a book and died before there were web pages.&nbsp; I believe that the progress from face to face to books to online knowledge passing will advance as we learn to use the new tools.&nbsp; It will not take thousands of years to make online ancient coin sources more and more valuable.&nbsp; I already prefer the medium due to the possibility to large and numerous photos and the ability to carry ten thousand of them on a tablet the size of a comic book.&nbsp; I can search and find information that previously would have required hours of page flipping and mold inhaling in musty stacks.&nbsp; There is room for both.&nbsp; &#039;Old guys&#039; like me will not live to see one or the other become supreme.&nbsp; I hope the future lovers of ancient coins will tke the best of all three ways of information passing. Talk to each other, write books and participate online.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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