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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 8681064, member: 72790&quot;]I may get bounced or banned from this site for writing this but in the hope that something positive for the site and those who post here may come about, here goes. I know something happened here several months ago about some controversial postings and a resultant disappearance of a number of members from the site, some by choice and others by fiat. As I look at the postings now, compared to the previous six months or so I have notice what appears to me to be quite a change to the kinds of postings we have today, what I would characterize as insipid. I seem to recall that many of the postings use to be very serious and detailed posts, heavy on the historical aspects of numismatics and the scholarly research being done on archaeology and forensic metrology of coinage along with references to historical texts and scientific research. I am sorry to say that what we seem to have now is little more than &quot;look at what I have&quot; and my coins are bigger than your coins. I have looked around for other sites but they are nowhere near as good as this one used to be for serious numismatic research and writing. I know the automatic response here will be to circle the wagons and defend the site but I would hope that members and those who run it would take a look at what used to be common here, ancient numismatic and historical scholarship, and what is now, what seems to me, to have become a very pedestrian platform for display of one&#039;s coinage with little effort to place it in its historical and scientific context. I think what we need here is what used to be called an &quot;examination of conscience&quot; and a firm purpose of amendment. To present writers and posters here on this site offended, or even angered, I apologize for that but I have done so in the hope that it is still possible to get some of those earlier posters who were of a scholarly bent back on here. One last point. I am sure that I will be told to find another site. I have tried and not found one as good as this one used to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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