The Future of this Hobby

(The arrow of time is irreversible.)

 

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(It all depends on how you see things.)

 

(Time keeps on slipping into the future.)

 

"Change is inevitable - it will come to pass. But this is a change that I do not think will be coming any time soon".
(Time keeps on slipping into the future.)

I think that the future is already here and that the change is just not complete yet.
However, I do not think that having no coinage other then minted gold or silver will not kill the hobby. In fact in might have the opposite effect.

 

That's kinda how I feel. When coins are removed from circulation, I think it will just add fuel to the fire. At least that's what I hope would happen...

 

The Future of this Hobby
is more Glorious than any thought can convey
centuries, nay eons and eons, must come and go
before we see the likes again of 1844.

oneness,
dh

Hi

My name is Dean Hedges, aka onepence, and this is my first post to this forum. I have been blessed with many a gift, and thankful to have found this forum. From the few posts that I have read I have found the members of this community readily assisting one another, and for this all here are worthy of my deepest respect. I recently got interested in coin collecting after reading the following quote from the Baha'i community of which I am a member.

"Such advances in science and technology were reciprocal in their effects. Grains of sand--the most humble and ostensibly worthless of materials--metamorphosed into silicon wafers and optically pure glass, making possible the creation of worldwide communications networks. This, together with the deployment of ever more sophisticated satellite systems, has begun providing access to the accumulated knowledge of the entire human race for people everywhere, without distinction. It is apparent that the decades immediately ahead will see the integration of telephone, television, and computer technologies into a single, unified system of communication and information, whose inexpensive appliances will be available on a mass scale. It would be difficult to exaggerate the psychological and social impact of the anticipated replacement of the jumble of existing monetary systems--for many, the ultimate fortress of nationalist pride--by a single world currency operating largely through electronic impulses."

So ... in a round about way I started studying currency and economics.
I think there is a good likely hood that a world government will attempt to pass legislation in effect to something like this

Any coin for A coin
no exceptions
Any bill for A bill
except the usd and reichsmarks which get nothing.

it is also probable most people will only to gladly turn in coins, especially "foreign" coins for a world currency coin.
perhaps slowly, ever so slowly, national heritage banks will emerge
offering among other things ... a museum of national coins ...

as far as the coin collecting hobby
fun and profitable if you have a strategy
like specializing in ???? Hati, Jamacica, Uruaguay, .... , coins
but ultimately what is of value is that is what is perceivied to be as a nearness to God ... for a Baha'i key dates of 1844 & 1863 Iran and Iraqi coins ... anything 1844 & 1863 stamps, coins, pictures, ... today rose petals.

a person of oneness,
Dean Hedges

 

You lost me, what's so special about 1844? Well i know there's something nice about that date from a British coin point of view it being the one year in which you can put together a full set from Sovereign to Silver groat. But other than that you lost me.

Is this any God in particular? (just want clarification, not a religious debate).