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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 700432, member: 112&quot;]Boss I am not trying to sway anybody, least of all Matt. He knows what he bought and he doesn&#039;t need my help, or my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any time I make comments on a coin like this I do it for one reason - to point things out and help the people who don&#039;t have the expertise that Matt has. It&#039;s a learning process, just that simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can learn to see the little things, yes little things -&nbsp; I did after all say numerous times that I thought NGC would grade this coin a 64, which is what pretty much all of the others said as well, so I am in no way knocking the coin - but if folks can learn to see the little things then they will never have a problem seeing the big things.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many times have any of you, all of you even, seen people come to this site,&nbsp; as well as others like it, all proud and happy of the new coin they bought ? Only to find out that they missed something, something that matters. And something that means that they paid way too much. How many times ? A thousand - ten ? Well, that&#039;s what these posts of mine like this are for. To try and help teach those people how to see the same things I see.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I never would have made another comment other than my first except for the fact that there were those saying that they could not see what I was seeing. So I was trying to show them.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said Boss, it&#039;s part of a learning experience. It&#039;s not me being overly critical.</p><p><br /></p><p>And as for me influencing people - God I hope so. I&#039;d hate to think that all of the thousands of hours that I have spent were for nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>And when you say - <i>&quot; and I think looking for the slightest imperfections when someone posts a coin is not what most are looking for ....&quot;</i> - yeah I know that. </p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;m not gonna be another one of those who just says - oh nice coin, that&#039;s a beauty, way to go ! Sorry, but while those type of comments are very nice to hear and people love hearing them, people don&#039;t learn anything from those comments. All that does is stoke their egos. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now there&#039;s nothing wrong with stoking somebody&#039;s ego, and I do my share of it when I think it&#039;s appropriate. But I&#039;d rather be remembered as the guy who tried to help others, teach others, show them their mistakes, and even have people be a little PO&#039;d about it now n then - that I would be just another guy who said - wow, nice coin ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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