For the fourth time, I've had the pleasure of teaching the Collecting and Investing in Morgan Dollars class at the ANA Summer Seminar this week. We had 9 awesome students who enjoyed "drinking through a fire hose" as we covered history, grading, toning, problem coins, design evolution, varieties, errors, assorted research projects, and passed around a lot of coins. Being a collector with a normal day job, I rarely get the opportunity to hang out for this long with a bunch of coin people, and every time I do, it energizes my enthusiasm for the hobby. If you get the chance to go to the Summer Seminar, do it. YNs have access to a lot of scholarships. Many of these are funded by a benefit auction that the YNs run each week. This year, the Eric Newman foundation matched the auction proceeds dollar for dollar, resulting in over $68000 being raised for YN scholarships.
This Summer Seminar is on my list of cool things, I have to do. It would be a great vacation away from work, for me as well.
The summer seminar is something I've forever wanted to go to, and every year I find a reason (or do the reasons find me?) that I can't fit it into my schedule. I would eagerly take a course on counterfeit detection, numismatic security or study obsolete minting practices. I suspect there's something in the summer seminar for all of us . . . even for those most esteemed instructors who return year-after-year.
OK......I gotta know what the drinking through the fire hose thingy was......no under age drinking I hope? Summer Seminar is one of the things on my bucket list........
It's a metaphor for learning a lot of stuff quickly. I will not comment on underage drinking other than to say it can get you sent home.
Mine was a metaphor for 'schtick'...........sorry about that. I intended no offence, and thanks for explaining the 'fire hose'.........sometimes I'm a slow learner.
