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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Randy Abercrombie, post: 3040806, member: 92655&quot;]I didn’t see the rant yesterday. However I have seen during my short time here how insistent these one-time posters are about there “one of a kind” mint error. I have also seen how these same one time posters will often be bull headed and rude in the face of common sense and knowledgeable replies. Is the lack of courtesy a sign of the times? I don’t know. That’s for a social forum site I reckon.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do try to put myself in my nine year old mind when I see these posts. That was when this hobby consumed me and I was sure every coin I held was special. I once found a toy copy of a Spanish Reale on a playground that I knew sure as the sun would come up was dead real. I also remember thinking everyone that tried gently to tell me it was a toy was slightly crazy.... So I try to set my mind appropriately when I see these posts. We could be grooming a future numismatic great. Who knows?</p><p><br /></p><p>The other side of this is the obvious misleading information these people are getting from YouTube and the like. Perhaps there is something proactive we can do to stem some of that? Maybe a sticky thread titled “Please Read This First If You Watched YouTube Video So and So”.... A place where those of us in the know can dispel some of the bogus info being spewed forth by these liars.... I don’t know. Just seems there’s something proactive that a vibrant group of knowledgeable folks could do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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