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<p>[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 4405327, member: 19165"]The most clear analogy is to relate this to your level of experience. For example, when you were in elementary school, you were taught that certain events and certain things meant a certain thing. It was clear, it was basic. When you went to middle school, you learned there might be a little bit deeper meaning. When you went to high school, you learned there were actually more opinions and ideas, and that thing you thought meant one thing might actually have more meanings, or might mean something completely different. Finally, when you went to college you (hopefully) learned to think for yourself and assimilate data and formulate and hypothesize. </p><p><br /></p><p>The same is true with numismatic learning. Those youtube videos are directed at the elementary education level - if you just inherited grand-dad's coins, absolutely do not touch them. Well, when you get to be as experienced as [USER=43130]@C-B-D[/USER], then you understand at the collegiate level that there are certain coins and certain methods that you can carefully conserve coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Should a beginner attempt this? Absolutely heck no. Can an experienced hobbyist carefully conserve coins to stabilize environmental effects and hopefully preserve a coin? Yes, with knowledge and experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 4405327, member: 19165"]The most clear analogy is to relate this to your level of experience. For example, when you were in elementary school, you were taught that certain events and certain things meant a certain thing. It was clear, it was basic. When you went to middle school, you learned there might be a little bit deeper meaning. When you went to high school, you learned there were actually more opinions and ideas, and that thing you thought meant one thing might actually have more meanings, or might mean something completely different. Finally, when you went to college you (hopefully) learned to think for yourself and assimilate data and formulate and hypothesize. The same is true with numismatic learning. Those youtube videos are directed at the elementary education level - if you just inherited grand-dad's coins, absolutely do not touch them. Well, when you get to be as experienced as [USER=43130]@C-B-D[/USER], then you understand at the collegiate level that there are certain coins and certain methods that you can carefully conserve coins. Should a beginner attempt this? Absolutely heck no. Can an experienced hobbyist carefully conserve coins to stabilize environmental effects and hopefully preserve a coin? Yes, with knowledge and experience.[/QUOTE]
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