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Message:: [QUOTE="World Colonial, post: 2495010, member: 78153"]It isn't just because I collect world coins and not US.  Its because I don't find most of the articles informative, except occasionally in The Numismatist.  They are too generic which is the intent since it is written for a "mass audience" with different knowledge levels and interests.  Coin Week is free and I will read much of it but I won't pay for it. In the pre-internet age, I agree that despite what I consider to be their current limited usefulness, my opinion did differ.  But that was then and this is now. The opinion I am expressing, I don't just apply to monthly magazines but supposed "reference" books also.  There are more specialized volumes to my knowledge now than before but the few books I bought on US coinage back in the 1980's (written by QDB), in my opinion someone could obtain most and maybe all of the information now just by looking at the population reports and auction archives. It all depends upon someone's interests.  To give one example, a website like the now defunct "Mexican Coin Magic" was leaps and bounds better for learning about a series than any of these magazines.  This site was free and I don't know all of the others but I would far prefer to spend my money to join a club like CONECA than subscribe to one of these magazines, except The Numismatist.[/QUOTE]