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• The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 44, October 16, 2005, Article 26
  

  NUMISMATICS: HOBBY OR INDUSTRY?
  

  Last week I quoted an author who referred to "the coin industry".
  One reader writes: "Why is the collecting and selling of coins
  being called an industry? Nothing is manufactured - by the hobby
  or dealers. The only manufacturing is being done by the world
  mints and bureaus of printing. If there is any "industry" web site,
  such would be for them.
  

  I have been most disturbed by the use of the word "Industry" as
  a blanket moniker for the hobby and those of the dealer community.
  Nothing is manufactured - those in the "business" are marketeers
  of technically second hand goods and hobbyists are just that -
  taking a portion of their lives to escape from the realities of the
  world around them, to pause if you will, to explore an interest of
  enjoyment."
  

  [Although not an "industry", there is certainly a booming business
  surrounding the numismatic hobby, so I would venture to say it's
  safer to use the term "coin business" in this context. Coin dealers
  are brokers and resellers, providing a service to the hobby through
  their buying, selling and brokering activity. -Editor]
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n44a26.html

Date publiée

• 2005-10-16

Volume

• 8

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