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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan B., post: 4602763, member: 112852&quot;]Hi Alegandron!&nbsp; Just to clarify, I know you didn&#039;t bold the words in question; that&#039;s why I had written &quot;emphasis mine.&quot;&nbsp; I also believe that you weren&#039;t trying to intentionally cause offense, and that wasn&#039;t what I, in my rather impulsive way, was trying to say, either.&nbsp; We&#039;re good--at least on my end! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was interesting to read your personal experiences, and I can identify with much of what you said.&nbsp; That said, I&#039;m sorry that your experience of US coins went south, but I am very glad that you are here in the ancients, and you have a lot of great coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, regarding the questions of modern collectors like &quot;what&#039;s it worth?&quot; I think that&#039;s how we people learn.&nbsp; Let&#039;s say I fall in love with a coin.&nbsp; The first question I might ask will almost certainly be &quot;how much does it cost?&quot;&nbsp; This is because I am hoping that I can acquire this wonderful piece, and I want to know if I can buy it now, or if I have to sell something to help fund it, or if I should just give up.&nbsp; Similarly, &quot;what&#039;s its grade?&quot; is the next question I will ask.&nbsp; This is because I need to learn more about ancient grading, and also it helps me to know more about buying the kind of coin that it is (for example, whether or not I can go up a grade, or if I need to come down).&nbsp; And finally, I can almost never buy a coin on impulse.&nbsp; There&#039;s normally a period of weeks to months in which I slaver over my beloved new coin-to-be, research and learn more about it, and so on.&nbsp; And then after I buy it, the slavering and the research continue! ;-)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That was a very gracious response, Doug, and I mean that sincerely.&nbsp; By the way, nice quarter!&nbsp; I have one single US quarter--from 1964--the sort that gets melted by the thousand every few days.&nbsp; I still have it because my dad gave it to me when I was a boy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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