I understand why a first edition is more valuable than a later edition. For a collector, not a reader. I wouldn't pay for an NFT of anything, but I am old and not up with the times. I also have no interest in digital anything as far as art or
music is concerned. I do have a small amount of Bitcoin, so I am not a total Luddite). Consider this, and it applies to anything digital if it is on the cloud or from a place like ITunes and even to media you physically own.
You buy a
music song or
album. You have a huge
collection. Albums you can
still play. Even 8-tracks if you have a player (and they are
still around). Reel to reel is
still around, as are cassettes. CDs are
still sold new. I know many people who have converted their physical
music to digital and discarded their physical. Others have never owned physical media. If you die, you cannot leave ITunes
music to your heirs. I guess you can if they have the password and keep paying storage fees or whatever. That is all temporary, in any case. But, you get my point. You don't really own it.
Apple does. Amazon owns the Kindle book you paid for while my bookshelves are full of real books I paid for. Even if you control the cloud account (you really don't ever totally control any digital account), it will disappear eventually. Tape lasts a lot longer, so do CDs. Albums last the longest. In the digital world, ownership is totally different and often illusory compared to the physical world.
All this is to say, I like physical things for anything I value. Like
music, I
still buy CDs or albums, never digital
music. Like art. It is the same with coins. Why would I want an ancient coin I can't hold? There are some
ancient coins I will never hold or own, but I
still don't want one unless it is to see a picture of it. I am surely not paying for it. I have lost literally tens of thousands of words I have written online that are gone forever. My notebooks and, to a lesser extent, my word processor/text editor files will last longer, my hand written notebooks the longest unless there is a fire or when I die and they all get tossed in the trash or maybe someone will keep them and be interested years later. No one will ever see my digital files after I am gone except for possibly the immediate computer check after I die (I have been through this scenario before, those files are usually not even looked at at all, there are just too many and file names usually make no sense), This applies to so many things, but I would apply it to my coin
collection, as well.
Give me a physical coin or no coin at all.
Regards,
Virgil
