How will Numismatics change?
Let’s speculate for a moment! Some of us spend some free time following National and World events that tend to get lesser media coverage then the media outlets think is important to us, and consider how such events could change areas of our lives. One of these events in the making that I catch up on is the whole “cashless society” thing. The cashless society rumor has been floating around for decades really, but with continually advancing technology and recent policy implementation over the years, I think it’s a fine time to consider how our hobby of coin collecting will change, or how long the hobby will remain attractive for some collectors. Without generalizing too much, I’d like to indicate a couple of thresholds of collecting in the hobby: The many collectors that prefer the finest coin specimens, with the greatest lustre and detail; and those that collect the oldest coins without the same attention to mint condition, or build very specialized collections where mint state coins ma
