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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2130498, member: 19463&quot;]One of the reason some of us hang around here is the fun of watching some of our new friends discover that there is life beyond modern coins.&nbsp; We might have a bad attitude about some modern things based on our ignorance but when I am impressed by a coin being from a rare mint at least it is more different than just having a little S stamped under the date.&nbsp; I recognize there are some fly-speckers among modern collectors who study minor die varieties but, for the most part, ancients offer many times the variety in more ways than most of us can imagine when compared to collecting 20th century US by date and mintmark.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The big difference that bothers me a little is that there is so much to learn that no normal person can be expected to become all knowing, infallible or even half dangerous in every one of the thousands of specialties available.&nbsp; Our little group here has otherwise reasonable people who love Nabateans, lead tokens, falling horsemen or some obscure branch mints that existed for only a few years to support military activities during a civil war.&nbsp; Imagine the varieties of people you might find among a thousand collectors when we have such a range in a dozen or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>MZ and others new here: I hope you will find a happy home here among the strange people and find an interest that will make you seem just as strange as we are by next year&#039;s crop of new collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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