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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2395389, member: 19463&quot;]I love the idea of groups like the DC Ancient Numismatic Society of Washington because of the one on one contact it allows but even in its heyday we had the problem of so many specialists and so little overlap.&nbsp; We had our Late Roman man&nbsp; and our Marcus Aurelius man. Our Greek silver specialist and our Athens only collector at least overlapped.&nbsp; Our sports specialist had a nice Caracalla with Circus Maximus aureus but the only other Severan person was me in the Eastern denarii.&nbsp;&nbsp; We enjoyed talking but to make really good contact matches I had to write letters to the United Kingdom and wait for the Internet to make world wide communications as we know them today.&nbsp; People who put the work into a magazine or online &#039;club&#039; have to be very generous for little return.&nbsp; I have a box with old samples of several magazines with articles of varying degrees of quality.&nbsp; Few lasted for long; the Celator was exceptional.&nbsp; Today, I see the best answer to what we need to be what we have here on Coin Talk.&nbsp; It is not exactly free but Supporter status is voluntary.&nbsp; I hope enough of us are supporting it since I prefer it to the monthly arrival of a magazine covering 905 subjects I either could not understand or could have written (middle ground articles were scarce).&nbsp; Do you want a new magazine like the old Celator?&nbsp; How badly?&nbsp; It looks like an opportunity for a lot of work for little return either in money or praise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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