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<p>[QUOTE="AdamL, post: 8169608, member: 6029"]Thanks again guys. I truly know almost nothing about ancients and do have a hard time reading the legends. I have to strain my eyes even for the easy ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I understand what I did "wrong" and learned from it. It's just that all someone has to do is say, "It's proper etiquette to (fill in the blank)" Lesson learned.</p><p><br /></p><p>But when someone is rude to a newbie who didn't know better, I just don't get it. I've been saddened at how much of it I've seen in the U.S. coin forum since coming back around. It REALLY turns off new collectors. The lesson learned from THAT type of reaction is to not post until you know a lot. But asking the most basic of questions is a step in that process. So what do you do? And thank you for sand for pointing out that I asked for book suggestions in my first post. My only objective was to learn, and I didn't know where to start.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AdamL, post: 8169608, member: 6029"]Thanks again guys. I truly know almost nothing about ancients and do have a hard time reading the legends. I have to strain my eyes even for the easy ones. And I understand what I did "wrong" and learned from it. It's just that all someone has to do is say, "It's proper etiquette to (fill in the blank)" Lesson learned. But when someone is rude to a newbie who didn't know better, I just don't get it. I've been saddened at how much of it I've seen in the U.S. coin forum since coming back around. It REALLY turns off new collectors. The lesson learned from THAT type of reaction is to not post until you know a lot. But asking the most basic of questions is a step in that process. So what do you do? And thank you for sand for pointing out that I asked for book suggestions in my first post. My only objective was to learn, and I didn't know where to start.[/QUOTE]
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