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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy9, post: 864389, member: 8360&quot;]In reference to Prospector&#039;s post</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;When you put a price tag on something it sort of loses it&#039;s value.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;&quot;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.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This is fine, collect what you like, but when it is actually neither a vareiety nor an error it should not be labeled as such</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;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.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;&quot;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&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And this year&#039;s Red book doesn&#039;t have next year&#039;s coins listed in it, that doesn&#039;t make the information in it any less valuable.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;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?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I have always made a point of not just stating &quot;post mint junk&quot; but rather state why it is post mint and not an error. I am NOT a dealer . I am a collector and as such I feel taht people that are truely interested in collecting should educated themselves about what they are collecting. One of a kind post mint damage is still post mint damage.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;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. &quot; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m sorry you think that because I am trying to educate people about my hobby I am behaving in an other than respectable manner. Nothing is clouding my judgement</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;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.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes this forum exists so that those of us who have some knowledge about the hobby can share it with others.This is what I am trying to do and you respond by insinuating that I am trying to rip you off? I have NEVER&nbsp; made an offer to buy a coin from anyone on this gforum, much less than any that I have offered an opinion on.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;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.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>You say admonished, others would say educated. some people actually appreciate it when they are informed about what they do or don&#039;t have.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I find it very offensive that you would insinuate that I or anyone else on this forum is here to seperate you from your precious &quot;errors&quot;. There were some top people in their respective fields that used to post on this forum that will no longer post here because of that kind of attitude. I have noticed some threads recently where incorrect information and speculation ahs gone on for a page or more because someone who knew what they were talking about is no longer here can&#039;t be bothered posting because they feel they will be mostly ignored.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll get off MY soapbox now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Richard[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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