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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3956311, member: 44316&quot;]In <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bcudas-top-8-coins-of-2109.352068/page-2" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bcudas-top-8-coins-of-2109.352068/page-2">this thread</a> bcuda wrote </p><p><br /></p><p>This is true for many of us. Collectors in big cities may belong to a coin club and find ancient-coin-collecting friends, but many of us have to collect alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Be glad you live in the 21st century. I collected utterly alone with ancient-coin books for my companions for many years prior to the internet. Ancient-coin dealers who sent out paper fixed-price lists would advertise (in <i>Coin World</i> and elsewhere) that you could get their lists if you would write and ask for them. I did. At the time I lived in Montana and mail was usually a day slower than to the coasts so the coins I wanted were often already sold. When a catalog came in the mail my wife would call my office and say one had come and bring it over on my lunch break so I could quick decide if I needed to call about some coin, hopefully before it was gone. </p><p><br /></p><p>Local dealers had, of course, US coins and little else. I did meet one collector I really liked in a city only 140 miles away and we visited a few times a year. He is still a good friend even though I moved much further away. I put some ancient-coins for sale in the local coin shop and eventually cultivated a good friend in my own town (until he moved to Texas and has since died). Then I cultivated a second good friend the same way and I saw him frequently (until we both moved away). After many years of collecting I have found other good friends, but all in distant places so I see them rarely. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think it is only natural that collectors would be more interested in their coins, or in coins they can buy, than in mine. You wrote, &quot;they just don&#039;t have any interest.&quot; That sentence could be completed two ways:</p><p>&quot;they just don&#039;t have any interest <b>in ancient coins</b>&quot; which is true for almost everyone, or</p><p>&quot;they just don&#039;t have any interest <b>my</b> ancient coins&quot; which is true even for most ancient-coin collectors (unless they think they can buy them). </p><p><br /></p><p>So, we can post coins here on CT and get &quot;likes&quot;, but I strongly recommend you rely on yourself and what you know for your enjoyment of your coins. Collecting is unlike a sports event where the cheering of spectators adds immediate excitement and can make the players feel great. Make yourself feel great because you know enough to appreciate what you have. <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/learnmore.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/learnmore.html" rel="nofollow">Books</a> can help a lot. <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/sitelinks.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/sitelinks.html" rel="nofollow">Websites</a> can help a lot. CT can help a lot. When you get, or contemplate getting, a coin, search CT on key terms and see what has been written about the type before. Then you will appreciate it more even if no one else knows about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is your impression of the role of other people in appreciating your coins? Does anyone you know who doesn&#039;t collect appreciate them nevertheless? Do your coin-collecting friends really want to see your coins, or just show your theirs?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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