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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 753069, member: 16510&quot;]<b>How this</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>krispy I predict one day we will be good buddies but until then you will be called on your stuff.</p><p>I, IMO bring something to every topic or thread I contribute to.&nbsp; It is not up to you to tell me if I&#039;m on topic or not, the meaning of my posts, or whether they be valid or not.&nbsp; In case you forgot this is only a coin forum not the Supreme Court or anything else that will change the course of history.&nbsp; It&#039;s about coins and coin collecting.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Why when you yourself tells someone on here this very day, </p><p>&quot;<b>Hey! Look it up don&#039;t just wonder about it!&quot; </b></p><p>how can you possible think that my posts are negative or off topic is a true mystery to all.&nbsp; I am beggining to think that the very things that you blasted me about are the very things that you do more often than I ever have.</p><p>I think you may be well out of your league here and do not know who you are speaking with or about so I will tell you.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am the current owner/operator of &quot;The Knoxville Coin Show&quot;.&nbsp; The longest running monthy one day show in the nation for 29 years.</p><p>I have always given free coins, currency and medals to every child or YN that comes in the show - I&#039;ve done dozens of more coin talks/presentations for school/scout troops.&nbsp; I have am a die variety specialist who has contributed to Ken Potter, John Wexler, and Billy Crawford&#039;s files.&nbsp; I have found well over 100 new die varieties and well over 10,000 copies of known die varieties.&nbsp; More often than not I have given many BU coins of found die varieties free to the above attributors just to further knowledge of our hobby. </p><p>I have been in Coin World a few times and and have contributed to most know souces of die varieties publications that are in print today.&nbsp; I have written articles for publication several times.&nbsp; I have been a dealer now for 10 years also.</p><p>I regularly search about 5000 Lincoln cents each week.&nbsp; I have found 45% of all the big Cherry Pickers coins currently known.&nbsp; I help folks each and every day get started or stay involved in coin collecting.&nbsp; I help older folks get the most for thier collections when I can or least get more than they would have got.&nbsp; I know over 100 dealers from across the south.&nbsp; I have had personal (email, phone) contacts with Q. David Bowers, Margois, Weinburg, Potter, Wexler, Crawford, Coppercoins, Coneca, Bill Fivas, and dozens more I cannot now remember.</p><p>I have personally sent free BU doubled dies to several Cointalk members just to help them learn.&nbsp; I even go so far as to actually throw away mechanical/machine doubled BU coins so has to keep them from reaching eBay or some newcommer to the hobby so they will not be fooled by these.</p><p>Now I tell you these things so you will now know who you are speaking with and to also explaine that my before mentioned remarks about the true importance of coins verses humanitarian issues really is who I am.</p><p>Now I will admit right off I am grandious, have a giant ego, and are often wrong - I am human and I am now old and often tired.&nbsp; But, I know of just a few others in this hobby that have given any more than I have and continue to generally for free.</p><p>Do not mistake who I am and do not tell me how to post, what to post when to post are why I should or should not post.&nbsp; I commented on that thead yesterday because that is my believe re-garding Govt. Officials - my beliefs are mine and I can express them anytime I want.&nbsp; I do not have time for Govt. Officials in any form because life is very short and they are without morals for the most part and not worth any longer effort on my part.&nbsp; I have lived long enough to know what is real and valuble and what is not.&nbsp; I have been in recovery for addiction now for over 19 years - I have spent over 20 years in the therapist chair.&nbsp; Have and still do &quot;keep passing the open windows&quot; for now anyway.&nbsp; I have seen many young people die to soon and many more than that be lost to the abiss forever.</p><p>I lived though the 1960&#039;s and 1970&#039;s although I do not remember them very well at all - I took more drugs than any of my doctors in treatment had ever heard of before from a single person - I drank a case of beer each night for a quarter of a century. </p><p>Now all this coupled with my father dying on Nov. 21, 2009 may certainly have colored my comments lately - I would not be a bit surprised if that were not true.&nbsp; Additionally my mother commited suicide in 1974 so now all are gone.</p><p>But ask yourself krispy, have I done the above?, have I seen what he has? have I given what he did? do I do what he does? do I know who he is?&nbsp; The answer is you cannot know what I have seen or how it has affected me or what colors my world as I cannot for you. </p><p>Do not tell me what, how or when to write ever again and if I did the same to you I am sorry - it is often the ones that bother us the most that are so much like ourselves.</p><p>I&#039;ve paid my dues and am intitled to express myself in here, please be mindful of that from this moment forward.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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