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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3255825, member: 96898"]This is a great thread idea!</p><p><br /></p><p>My worst beginner mistake was to assume that I wouldn't really need reference books but could rely on internet sources alone when it came to attributing and finding out more about my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that was not the case. When I was checking, for example, my LRBs from my early collecting days against a copy of RIC (from an institutional library I fortunately have access to), I discovered an embarassing number of attribution mistakes that I had just copied from some online source.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a lesson from this, I began to consult at least the standard reference work before writing my tag for a coin that's new to my collection. Though there admittedly are many reliable online ressources, this still seems the best way to get numismatic information. Also, I enjoy collecting a lot more since I started to read up on my coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3255825, member: 96898"]This is a great thread idea! My worst beginner mistake was to assume that I wouldn't really need reference books but could rely on internet sources alone when it came to attributing and finding out more about my coins. Well, that was not the case. When I was checking, for example, my LRBs from my early collecting days against a copy of RIC (from an institutional library I fortunately have access to), I discovered an embarassing number of attribution mistakes that I had just copied from some online source. As a lesson from this, I began to consult at least the standard reference work before writing my tag for a coin that's new to my collection. Though there admittedly are many reliable online ressources, this still seems the best way to get numismatic information. Also, I enjoy collecting a lot more since I started to read up on my coins.[/QUOTE]
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