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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 36583, member: 57463&quot;]Then &quot;coins on TV&quot; would be the mainstream.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin World audits and publishes its subscription number.&nbsp; (Krause does not publish numbers, though they probably have them audited for their own purposes.)&nbsp; CW finds that (1) there is little overlap with Krause readers: it tends to be either-or; and (2) there is nearly complete overlap with ANA membership; the overwhelming number of CW subscribers are ANA members also.&nbsp; So, CW&#039;s subscription numbers are the low side of the correct guess.&nbsp; Add a few percent for Krause readers; add a few more for ANA members who are not CW subscribers; you get about 100,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps there are only two questions that need be asked to cull the goats from the sheep:</p><p>(1) Who was James Longacre</p><p>or</p><p>(2) How many shillings in a pound.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you cannot answer either of those, you are not a collector of numismatic artifacts.</p><p><br /></p><p>(That is an excluse either-or, not inclusive.&nbsp; However, a true collector of U.S. items could easily find in a reference on their own shelf the answer to (2), just as a European could easily look up (1) if they do not know.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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