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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3101159, member: 19463&quot;]It all of a sudden strikes me that coin dealers as a group owe a debt of gratitude to discussion groups like Coin Talk for the way they pressure us into buying coins we did not know we wanted.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope my time never comes that I feel the need to apologize for buying what catches my eye instead of limiting myself to some coins I don&#039;t like just because they fit some set I&#039;m supposed to be assembling. </p><p><br /></p><p>A major problem and, at the same time,&nbsp; major strength of ancients is the fact that none of us really knows what exists.&nbsp; Most of us probably see a coin that was previously unknown to us every week or so.&nbsp; The real pros among us (I&#039;m thinking Barry Murphy level) may go longer but they see so many more coins, I suspect the new material turns up with some regularity just as it does for the rest of us.&nbsp; We can not very well collect ancient using the &quot;because I don&#039;t have one&quot; theory beyond the earliest stages of collecting but I admit a certain attraction to collecting coins that I simply did not know existed after being in the hobby for decades.&nbsp; There are so many different ancients that it is possible for a coin to be both common and unknown to us until we start researching it and wonder how it had escaped unnoticed.&nbsp; That is why one of my specialty interests is &quot;Coins that taught me something.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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