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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2168641, member: 19463&quot;]The difference I see is today there are many more so called dealers trying to convince beginners that their low quality coins are just the way things that old are.&nbsp; Before you could set up as a dealer for next to nothing (eBay or vCoins) you faced the expense of making a list and mailing it out.&nbsp; Now it is easy to put some stuff on the web and dazzle people with your programming rather than your coins.&nbsp; Before digital photography, it was hard to find a photographed lot of a low price coin because the cost of film and printing was more than the coin was worth.&nbsp; As a result, illustrated lists had more coins of Pescennius Niger than of Septimius Severus. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also believe that we are much higher priced now for high grade examples of common coins.&nbsp; There has been a recent (since slabs) upturn in coins that could be found in bulk in EF grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1998, I said (on my book review page) I considered auction catalogs, without doubt, the most valuable part of my numismatic library.&nbsp; Today you can have the kind that you hold in your hand (more fun) or the ones online (easier to search) but I still believe in looking at such catalogs.&nbsp; I used to look forward to the mail every day in the hope that I&#039;d get another printed catalog (with or without illustrations).&nbsp; Now I walk to the mail box mostly for exercise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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