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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismania, post: 1329847, member: 28971&quot;]First off, I was never bullied or picked on as a kid, and I grew up in a very respectful household. I had a whole reply towards your &#039;friendly&#039; post, but decided to not post it...it would only make you pick on me more. I&#039;m no kid, trust me, and I DON&#039;T back down to anyone. With that said...</p><p><br /></p><p>You think you are being attacked, but you aren&#039;t. You are bringing it on yourself. You post things you insist are one thing, yet when you are told, &#039;nope, not an error&#039;, you go on the defensive. Just like when you challenged 19Lyds to show his coins after he gave his OPINION....you DID challenge him to show some of his coins, did you not? If you&#039;d stop posting EVERY COIN YOU FIND, or arguing with experts, or those who simply DO know the diagnostics on what may or may NOT be an error, and took the advice you, yourself, sought here, people wouldn&#039;t be all over everything you post. You claim to have a friend who is an expert. Most of us who have been involved in the hobby for awhile, KNOW who the experts are. When asked to name him, you refused....you set yourself up with statements like that. By refusing to send a coin in for authentication, it makes it seem like you think you know more than the TPG&#039;s know. Now, I understand $$ can be a major decision maker in that area. Not knowing your financial situation (which is none of my business, I know), error or variety attribution CAN get costly, especially if it is determined to NOT be what you thought it was. </p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, if you want to be/have your posts be more informational, and allow new/newer collectors to benefit fom it...don&#039;t be so insistent that, to those who DO know, and have given an opinion, they are simply wrong. I hope you can take this post as to what it&#039;s meant to be....there were a number of former members who did just as you are doing, and it brought out exactly what is being posted, by a good majority. I know we are ALL proud of our acquisitions, and first rule of collecting is &#039;enjoy what you collect&#039;. You obviously DO enjoy it...but by trying to MAKE us see what you see, if we disagree, well, that isn&#039;t helpful in your ultimate goal of being informational.</p><p><br /></p><p>We ENJOY when we see a newp, a freshly graded error, new variety, etc. You CLAIM to have them, but even YOU don&#039;t/can&#039;t know for sure without authentication. An unnamed expert is no expert. Personally, if you were less abrasive and insistent (I&#039;m NOT trying to be insulting or confrontational by saying that), and took other&#039;s comments with a grain of salt, your posts COULD be used as knowledge for the fledgling/new collector, but when you refuse to take an opinion that differs from yours, you get all bent. If you think those that said &#039;hammer job&#039;, or &#039;PMD&#039; did it to insult you, you are wrong. It seems you are only polite when someone agrees with you. Take the &#039;ICG got it right&#039; post. There was no need to start a NEW post about it (and, trust me, ICG has a rep that isn&#039;t that great....I just got crossover grades from PCGS, an MS67 silver Washington quarter, graded MS67, couldn&#039;t even get a PCGS MS65...so, their grading is WAY off)...also, resiident experts have freely admitted that designated errors in other TPG slabs are mis-designated...they are NOT mint erors, but simply damaged coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I&#039;d LOVE to see you come up with something that would make our jaws drop. As far as your &#039;toys&#039; comment, it seems YOU are trying to convince US that YOUR toys are special toys. We ALL have coins we are proud of, but we don&#039;t try to choke the forum with them all. I&#039;ll lay off...but remember, I&#039;m not the only one that has a problem with your incessant insistence everything you show us is special. Not ALL of them are, but the last one, yes, it&#039;s interesting. Lastly, don&#039;t bring up anyones upbringing, or accuse/ask if they were bullie, picked on, etc....I find those that are overly insistent about things are usually the ones that were bullied/picked on. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll end this by apologizing for anything I said that made you take offense. I wouldn&#039;t normally do that, but you DO seem to have a genuine love for your coins, so, I&#039;ll just offer up all I&#039;ve said here and perhaps we can start from scratch...that&#039;s assuming you&#039;ll accept my apology. One thing I learned long ago, if you don&#039;t have anything nice to say to someone, don&#039;t say anything. I got caught up in it, and violated that rule of thumb. I can&#039;t speak for those that were as adamant and perhaps insulting as I was, but I&#039;ll leave it out there for you to decide if you will accept my apology or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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