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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prospector, post: 864135, member: 18940&quot;]Live in the Mystery .. Not in the Know!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When you put a price tag on something it sort of loses it&#039;s value.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do this because I enjoy the hunt and the find and couldn&#039;t really care less about what it&#039;s value is. If I think it&#039;s unusual and rare-scarce or in great condition, no matter what variety or error it is, it gets kept.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I love having them to look at when I want and I love finding new varieties by learning reading this forum and then going back and researching the 1500 plus &quot; Cents&quot; I have collected just to discover I have one. It&#039;s like an endless cycle for the real explorer who can&#039;t go to Egypt or Crete and find a 3,000 year old temple of spritual guidance.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If I went out and bought every book about every Mint Error or Post Mint Error I wouldn&#039;t be posting much anymore on here and I am quite sure those said books , by the time I bought them, wouldn&#039;t have any of the New Discoverys in them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Instead of quickly telling someone there post is &quot; Junk&quot; or &quot; post-Mint&quot; damage why not consider just because it&#039;s worthless to you as a coin dealer as opposed to a true collector it may be worth keeping to someone else?&nbsp; And possibly, just possibly, it may be worth holding onto? Or, might even be a One of a Kind,&nbsp; Or, maybe tell someone &quot; Yeah, that&#039;s a nice &quot; Post-Mint&quot; damage coin and might not be worth anything to me but it might be to someone who actually appreciates it&#039;s appeal?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Too many people have dollar signs in their eyes and it does get in the way of respectable behavior and clouds even the most generous person&#039;s judgement.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yea, some of us are just begining and don&#039;t have the resources you experts have but isn&#039;t that why this forum exist? One can only assume sometimes based on the attitudes on here that some of you coin dealers like to mitigate a coin either to try to buy it at a very low price from someone just to turn around and sell it for a ridiculous profit or tell someone their coin would never grade high just to keep them from having it graded and registered to keep it&#039;s population down thus preserving the value of your own similiar coin. Is that impossible to fathom?&nbsp; I think not.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve seen people post coins on here just because they thought they were interesting looking ,just to be admonished by someone because to them it was worthless or, the so-called expert expressed an opinion about the posted coin when one wasn&#039;t asked for.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Okay, sorry.. off my soap box now..lol[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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