ACCG officer Dealer Dave Welsh continues his drive to bring discussion of antiquities issues down to the level of the gutter ("Scumbags", Ancient Coins (sic) blog, Monday, September 23, 2013). In the end, such behaviour does the collectors' cause no credit, tending instead to create an impression that some artefact collectors are quite simply not very nice people with whom it is useless expecting to have any semblance of a proper discussion. This is the Ancient Coin Collectors' Guild in a nutshell, a group of bitter and aggressive old men intent on crassly shouting down any efforts to clean up the no-questions-asked trade in ancient coins.
In his name-calling commentary to a cut-and-pasted reposting of a previous blog text of mine, Mr Welsh says:
Mr. Barford clearly does not understand that a practical provenancing system for ancient artifacts involves recording their discovery in a manner equivalent to what he advocates, which however is both feasible and affordableThen why do not coin dealers get on and create such a system and demonstrate that, instead of incessantly talking about it? For how many decades do they propose discussing doing something before actually getting down to it and doing it and instead of putting their words into action, wasting time and effort insulting anyone who criticises them for not doing it?
It seems that Mr Welsh considers that instead of semen like the rest of us, Americans procreate by the use of "scum". I suggest he read his dictionary again.
