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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 1813956, member: 4350&quot;]I&#039;ve known John and Ken , and when he was still with us, Alan Herbert.&nbsp; I know most of the major error and die variety people, like BJ Neff and Mike Diamond.&nbsp; I&#039;ve known and learned from some of these people for more than 25 years.&nbsp; I feel confident when I say that each of these gentleman would probably say that I know what I&#039;m talking about 99.9% of the time.&nbsp; Again, I screw up occasionally but not often.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve written hundreds of articles and columns for CW and for several websites that unfortunately are off line right now.&nbsp; I&#039;ve contributed to the Numismatist and I&#039;ve had editorials published that have included my corrections to other articles seen in the magazine.&nbsp; I&#039;ve answered thousands of emails for my website askaboutcoins( one of the offline sites due to a server issue) and so on.&nbsp; I know coins and the processes that go into making them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I make a mistake every once in awhile but it &quot;ain&#039;t&quot; often that I do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those folks who just show up and don&#039;t have the knowledge or experience to understand the concepts involved with the classes of doubled dies tend to see whatever they want to see when they examine a coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; They don&#039;t understand the intricate parts of the minting process and they haven&#039;t seen thousands of coins that really are doubled dies in order that they might know what they are looking at.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people with limited knowledge want to tear apart the knowledgeable. I suppose so they can make themselves feel better,&nbsp; AND...some people truly want to learn about the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect that by now, readers of these threads can figure out who has a clue and who is just stirring the pot by sharing their almost total lack of correct information in order to get a rise out of some of us.</p><p><br /></p><p>You know what...When I started out in numismatics many years ago,&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know squat from Shinola....but I learned.&nbsp;&nbsp; Do you know that I still have the first 1956 D Lincoln cent that Ken Potter used to teach me what machine doubling was, more than 25 years ago?&nbsp; Learning from those who are willing to teach what is useful and correct is one of the great parts of a coin forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, enough for now.&nbsp; Those that want to learn, can learn from many of the people here.&nbsp; You can figure out who to pay attention to.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The sad part is that some of the longest threads in these forums are long because some of the least knowledgeable people want to convince others that they have a clue when they have almost no idea what it takes to make a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway...I&#039;m off to read another thread.&nbsp; This has gotten too long already.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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