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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4037131, member: 57463&quot;]Thanks for the reply, GD, and for the doff of the hat. I was thinking of the individual hobbyist, rather than the hobby per se. As far as I know, no one in astronomy claims that any egregious situation will kill amateur astronomy per se, but, rather, many people get a telescope, use it a few times and then never touch it again. The fault is not in the stars. When I posed the question in an astronomy forum, the agreed upon view was that such people probably had low interest in the first place. It was a passing fancy. But the loss of the hobbyist was an individual thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, too, here, I believe. People collect. We accept that. But the individual who has one or more bad experiences early on will find some other outlet for those passions of completeness, condition, rarity, and value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you think that the persons who paid $500,000 and $1 million for &quot;Continental Curency&quot; coins in silver tagged Mint State and then Extremely Fine, (or $25,000 for a Good in brass) <b>graded and authenticated</b>, and lavished with praiseful prose in the auction catalogs now have had their enjoyment killed because none of these objects was really made in America for Congressional consideration?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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