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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 3718189, member: 83845"]I think the ancient coin hobby is fine and if it isn’t I’ll buy up all the cheaper ancient coins during the death spiral <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. There are more avenues available to purchase ancient coins than ever before thanks to the internet. I also don’t think the move to a cashless society will have as much of an effect on ancient coins. People who collect ancient coins are probably almost as likely to migrate to ancient coins from collecting antiques like old signs or something as they are to start from collecting wheat pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many on here will vehemently disagree with me but instead of considering eBay to be a mark of the hobby’s health I consider it more of a leach on the integrity of the hobby. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent IDing obviously fake coins being sold as authentic and flagging them to eBay only to see almost all of them continue to sell from sellers whose negative feedback is quickly removed for some technicality or the other. Try the same exercise with fake Rolex watches or Luis Vuitton purses and you will see how quickly those items get addressed. That is why eBay is the first and last resort of the forger. It would be better if eBay stopped selling ancient coins all together IMO (or at the very least just take a more active interest in enforcing authenticity standards).</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that our hobby is more likely to die from cultural property laws than it is from lack of interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a random ancient coin and a modern one as well for good measure.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]996637[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]996636[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 3718189, member: 83845"]I think the ancient coin hobby is fine and if it isn’t I’ll buy up all the cheaper ancient coins during the death spiral :woot:. There are more avenues available to purchase ancient coins than ever before thanks to the internet. I also don’t think the move to a cashless society will have as much of an effect on ancient coins. People who collect ancient coins are probably almost as likely to migrate to ancient coins from collecting antiques like old signs or something as they are to start from collecting wheat pennies. Many on here will vehemently disagree with me but instead of considering eBay to be a mark of the hobby’s health I consider it more of a leach on the integrity of the hobby. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent IDing obviously fake coins being sold as authentic and flagging them to eBay only to see almost all of them continue to sell from sellers whose negative feedback is quickly removed for some technicality or the other. Try the same exercise with fake Rolex watches or Luis Vuitton purses and you will see how quickly those items get addressed. That is why eBay is the first and last resort of the forger. It would be better if eBay stopped selling ancient coins all together IMO (or at the very least just take a more active interest in enforcing authenticity standards). My guess is that our hobby is more likely to die from cultural property laws than it is from lack of interest. Here is a random ancient coin and a modern one as well for good measure. [ATTACH=full]996637[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]996636[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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