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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2507480, member: 24314&quot;][USER=32117]@Ed23[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I truly wish people could read! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; Especially the older members who like to give advice. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ed posted:&nbsp; &quot;Apply this to a younger you ... are you saying you were not self-reliant and were lazy because you dared ask an older collector for info out of curiosity and a genuine desire to learn?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">As I originally posted...in my day, virtually all of us were SELF TAUGHT.&nbsp; <span style="color: #000000">Mentors were few.&nbsp; I don&#039;t recall even speaking with an older numismatist about anything he wished to share until I was in my twenties.&nbsp; I quickly found that very many of the dealers I knew were ignorant about most characteristics on coins, the minting process, and authenticity (<span style="color: #ff0000">THINGS HAVE NOT CHANGED</span>).&nbsp; I WAS LUCKY to know a dealer who was a very conservative grader.&nbsp; When I looked in a grading guide, his coins matched the description.&nbsp; Remember, when I was a young collector, there were no seminars, there were few books and NONE as specialized as we have today, NO INTERNET, virtually nothing.&nbsp; </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">I also posted where the questioner could find an answer to his question.&nbsp; <span style="color: #000000">Do you know the difference between giving a man a fish and teaching a man to fish?</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p>Ed continued: &quot;I&#039;m into my 64th year of collecting coins and I&#039;m still very curious and very interested in learning more and I&#039;ll be the first to admit I don&#039;t know everything.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">Ditto, read my profile...I learn many &quot;new&quot; things about coins EVERY DAY!&nbsp; </span></p><p><br /></p><p>Ed said: &quot;But I do know I&#039;d not be happy with the kind of response given that other questioner, if given to me, as he was just swatted away like a fly that was buzzing one&#039;s face. Very disrespectful if done to another human being, not so much if done to a fly.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">So sorry about your feelings.&nbsp; If I were the OP, I would have looked up &quot;Whizzing&quot; as I was told and then given me a &quot;LIKE.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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