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<p>[QUOTE="ronnie58, post: 2967759, member: 90698"]This is very well thought out and expressed with an admirable logic. Who could say that your conclusion does not follow from this sequence of plausible evidence. So numismatics is going down the tubes as the generations age out.</p><p> But guess what. It isn't.</p><p> How can I suggest this? Because you are using the constructs of a passing world to forecast the atmosphere of a completely different and as yet unknown world. </p><p> Only a couple of things are for sure in this tricky business of predicting the future of coin collecting. </p><p> Society, including communication, economics, transportation, education, you name it are all going to look different in the near future. Think quantum computing and the verification of non-local effects. We are there already. </p><p> And counterfeiting aside for the moment, the fact that they aren't making any more rare coins from the past.</p><p> When you put together <i>these</i> two indisputable facts, you can see that while numismatics will not hold the identical position as it does today, some other agreement of valuation of the comprehensive array of current holdings will emerge. </p><p> It might entail cooperatives, temporary ownership, institutional exchanges, who knows. Whatever it turns out to be, I believe that the value that is intrinsic to this act of preservation that we are collectively pursuing <i>will</i> turn out to be transferable to the world to come.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ronnie58, post: 2967759, member: 90698"]This is very well thought out and expressed with an admirable logic. Who could say that your conclusion does not follow from this sequence of plausible evidence. So numismatics is going down the tubes as the generations age out. But guess what. It isn't. How can I suggest this? Because you are using the constructs of a passing world to forecast the atmosphere of a completely different and as yet unknown world. Only a couple of things are for sure in this tricky business of predicting the future of coin collecting. Society, including communication, economics, transportation, education, you name it are all going to look different in the near future. Think quantum computing and the verification of non-local effects. We are there already. And counterfeiting aside for the moment, the fact that they aren't making any more rare coins from the past. When you put together [I]these[/I] two indisputable facts, you can see that while numismatics will not hold the identical position as it does today, some other agreement of valuation of the comprehensive array of current holdings will emerge. It might entail cooperatives, temporary ownership, institutional exchanges, who knows. Whatever it turns out to be, I believe that the value that is intrinsic to this act of preservation that we are collectively pursuing [I]will[/I] turn out to be transferable to the world to come.[/QUOTE]
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