A lesson on Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles

No, Josh... you don't, but maybe what you do need is simply to work a little harder at what you're trying to do.

As for wanting to teach everyone from the newcomer to professional, and as suggested earlier, you would be better off targeting a certain group of collectors that could use what you have to offer instead of trying to teach those who are more knowledgeable/experienced in the type/series than you are; it just doesn't make sense for you to want to educate the very people that could/should be educating you. You're relatively new and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it, so concern yourself more with teaching and helping those you can instead of the so-called "professionals" who, and sorry to be blunt, probably do not need your help, especially with such a general subject.

 

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Thanks Dutchman for your suggestion. I feel encouraged. But what a challenge ?
My mother tongue not being English (Dutch/Flemish) I may have to ask for some understanding from the people on the board.
As I am not gifted with being eloquent. The pictures fortunately could tell the story.

 

I am a sportive guy...

 

Not so much an editor as a second (or more) pair of eyes. I've run into the same problem myself. I can proofread several times something I have written, and then have errors spotted by the first other person that reads it. Part of the problem is that you know what you are intending to say and when you re-read your work you "see" what you intended and not what you actually wrote.

Vegas Vic's suggestion to have someone else read over your post/article before you actually post it is a good one.

 

The more the merrier. Can't wait to see you're coin! Don't worry about your English. I'm sure it's better than our ability to speak Dutch/Flemish!!

 

I agree with what Condor said; having more than one person read something before sending it in will almost always help. I have all of my roommates read my lab reports before I turn them in to help catch errors. I also suggest reading some of Jason's (physics-fan3.14) posts, some of which I have in my signature. He wrote some great articles that seem to be in the style you are looking to do.

 

You're coming through loud and clear Roy. Your communications skills are better than some of the natives here.........

 

Josh, a good effort and not bad. I'm not as fussy on non-material errors, however, if you want to improve the style in the future:

1. On lengthy posts, copy them in MS Word and use the Spellcheck feature. Once corrected and once reviewed by your eyes, then post it on CoinTalk.
2. Proofing with Spellcheck and your eyes in Word will then make a final proof once you post on CoinTalk much easier. Your eyes will see it as new writing and not tend to 'glaze over' any obvious errors.
3. Strive for short sentences and short paragraphs. No sentence should be longer than 2-3 lines. No paragraph should be more than 10-12 lines (6-8 sentences).
4. Watch extra spaces between paragraphs.
5. Don't be afraid to use bold face, color text, or underlining to highlight key points.

I liked the way you integrated some pics into the prose, good job !

 

Good recommendations. I'd just like to add to your point #5: Use bold, color and underlines judiciously. Too much of it will lessen the intended effect.

 

That remains to be proven.

As stated elsewhere, the coins could have been gotten from the window at the mint for a month or so prior to the ban on gold holdings.

It has never been proven that they were stolen, you could, at the time, just exchange gold coins for new gold coins.

He COULD have just exchanged them. The jury is still out. Just because the gov't says something doesn't make it so.

Casting aspersions is not a nice thing to do, unless you can prove it, and no one has to date.

 

Sentences & paragraphs are our friends.

But, this is much better than some other posts.

 

Something I have been told previously !

You don't want to be like Elaine on "SEINFELD" using the exclamation marks:

 

Probably THE MOST LIKELY scenario that happened.

Unfortunately, the government didn't have to PROVE that Switt stole the coins, his heirs had to prove that he did NOT.

I still think a settlement will happen down the line and the Langbord's will get to keep some of the coins.

 

Josh, while I agree with much of what Amanda and others said, I applaud your efforts. I am so happy to see young people such as yourself take an interest in our hobby. I have concerns about the future of this great hobby. Please do not let the good and well intentioned criticism offered by us dissuade you from further efforts.

 

Absolutely....I would gladly take more posts on these forums with grammar and other mistakes. This isn't high-school English class !!

Josh, fire away !!

 

Josh: now that you gave us an excellent OP to start this thread, please keep spurring MORE DEBATE on this topic. You did a great job starting this thread, now keep it going !

Suggestions (mine, feel free to do whatever you want):

1. When did you get interested in Saint-Gaudens ? Why ?
2. Do you own any ? Which ones ?
3. Experiences -- good or bad -- buying or not buying a particular coin ?
4. Dream coin that you would LOVE to get that is reasonable for your budget ?
5. Other experiences (auctions involving Saints, local coin dealer, etc.).

I'll be happy to write about mine, but I'll give you 1st shot !

 

Yes Josh, more please!

 

hopefully, it proves that honesty is NOT the best way to go