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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2641585, member: 56859&quot;]Not long ago World and Ancients were one board on CoinTalk.&nbsp; There weren&#039;t that many ancients collectors here, then Steve and many others migrated from another forum to CoinTalk.&nbsp; The volume of ancients posts rapidly increased, to the vexation of modern World collectors who saw their posts pushed down the &quot;front page&quot; and whose threads never seemed to have as much excitement or activity as the ancient coin threads.&nbsp; After much discussion the boards were separated and I think most people ended up happy with the split.</p><p><br /></p><p>Deciding the cutoff date for ancient and &quot;world&quot; was problematic at first but most people stopped caring.&nbsp;&nbsp; People who are more active on the ancients board tend to post their medievals on the ancients board where their friends will see the coins, and vice versa.&nbsp;&nbsp; No matter what cutoff date you choose, there will be some coins/cultures that will be posted on the &quot;wrong&quot; board.</p><p><br /></p><p><strike>I don&#039;t have strong feelings about the matter.</strike>*&nbsp; I&#039;ll continue to read the thread of interest and skip the threads that aren&#039;t relevant to my current collecting tastes.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Edited before posting because that statement isn&#039;t really true <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I&#039;d <i>rather</i> the medieval be lumped in with World simply because I&#039;m not currently interested in medieval coins and would rather not dilute the Ancients board with posts I&#039;m going to skip.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s not that big a deal though and my personal preference may be counter to the most sensible solution.&nbsp; I&#039;ll continue to love CoinTalk either way <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, Fitzy-- your writeups are always excellent and I <b>do</b> read all of your posts...&nbsp; To an extent my lack of interest in medievals is self-protective.&nbsp; I can&#039;t afford to become enamored of <i>another</i> thousand years of coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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