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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3100480, member: 19463&quot;]Unless I am missing something here, the link to Massolit is Kevin Butcher giving a short ad for the lectures you can purchase bu subscribing to Massolit.&nbsp; This is, I fear, the major difference between amateurs and professionals.&nbsp; Professionals expect to be paid for their work whether or not their work is of a level above what is freely available.&nbsp; Much of what is available on ancient coins is professional supported by coin dealers with individual web sites providing both education and the opportunity to buy coins from them.&nbsp; This would include CNG Coins. Other material is ad supported.&nbsp; This would include Coin Talk.&nbsp; My web pages are free and have no ads except for mention of the fact that they exist on web space provided by Forvm Ancient Coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; What are you proposing here?&nbsp; Amateur can mean free as well as non-commercial.&nbsp; The material presented by amateurs on Coin Talk may or may not be better or worse than that of academics who can not be expected to know everything about every specialty of ancient coins.&nbsp; There is also the question whether PhD&#039;s in Classics are best suited to produce material on a Kindergarten level for the benefit of those who just discovered that there are actually coins older than they are.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You may have sensed it but I am regularly troubled by those who sell repackaged free material unless they have added some value, perhaps editing, that makes that material more useful to the people paying for their product.&nbsp; Far too many books I see offered for sale fall in one of two categories.&nbsp; One is something I could have written; the other is something I am unable to comprehend.&nbsp; I believe that a video service of mid level material aimed at the target audience could be useful to the ancient coin community.&nbsp; This might even be <i>almost</i> as useful as would be those same people participating in Coin Talk itself where customized and interactive free education is a daily occurrence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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