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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2552734, member: 1892&quot;]As a numismatic scholar and collector, if the US Mint disappears tomorrow absolutely nothing will change in my life. I could not possibly care less what they&#039;re doing, as my experience is <b>completely involved only in what they <i>did</i></b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>There will never not be people like me in numismatics. Perhaps there will come a day when we&#039;re the only ones carrying on anything numismatic, but in that case only one subset of the hobby will disappear. The stuff we&#039;re interested in already exists, and isn&#039;t going anywhere unless there&#039;s a mass melting of <i>everything</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>We don&#039;t care what the Mint is doing. We&#039;re interested in Ancients. 18th Century Russian copper. 19th Century US Gold. Thalers. British Colonial coinage. Morgan VAMs. Swiss Shooting Medals. Large Cents. Chinese Cash.</p><p><br /></p><p>And we now have an unimaginably powerful tool to reach out and educate a worldwide audience about our interests, in real time, allowing the foremost experts on any given topic to interact directly with someone 10,000 miles away.</p><p><br /></p><p>As long as there are people with a passion for the hobby, there will be another generation of people with a passion for the hobby. It&#039;s never been so easy to plant the seed; it&#039;ll never be difficult again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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