Future Of Coin Collecting

maybe jbuck, and that would mean collecting would focus on the rarest and finest pieces with a strong pedigree, too expensive for the rest of us

I am worried about the many genuine pieces that are original and interesting and on the market today for a reasonable price when the pollution by better and better numismatic frauds cannot be stopped.
A too high level of pollution with worthless fakes will scare off most collectors and that will ruin the hobby. So it is a priority of the coin collectors community to find ways to stop the pollution.