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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 16156, member: 57463&quot;]I have always been a writer, no matter what other jobs I held.&nbsp; Even after earning a college degree in transportation management, I still wrote music reviews and such.&nbsp; I learned to program computers in 1977 and by 1984, it was pretty clear that I was the only programmer who actually wrote documentation, so I wrote a lot of&nbsp; it.&nbsp; Along the way, I started reviewing products for computer magazines.&nbsp; I had always been a &quot;gold bug&quot; a rightwing monetist and really an &quot;Austrian&quot; in economics, and therefore an active fan of coins and bars and such.&nbsp; I did not get interested in numismatics per se until 1992 and when I did, it was natural enough for me to write.&nbsp; A year or two later, the ANA granted me a couple of awards, and by 1999, I was the international editor of Coin World.&nbsp; Now, I edit the MSNS <i>Mich-Matist</i> and work the website at <a href="http://www.michigancoinclub.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.michigancoinclub.org" rel="nofollow">www.michigancoinclub.org</a> for them.&nbsp; I still write an occasional feature for <i>Numismatist</i> and I keep up a monthly column for them, &quot;Internet Connections.&quot;&nbsp; So, I interview people all the time and it pretty much ingratiates me to them as it does them to me.&nbsp; In the last 20 years or so, I have probably written two &quot;exposes&quot; and regretted them both.&nbsp; I do not do &quot;60 Minutes.&quot;&nbsp; So, when I meet someone and write about them, it is a positive experience for both of us.&nbsp; The downside is that it prevents objectivity.&nbsp; So, I wanted to know from THE LIBERATOR how he evaluated the major references on the Shield Nickels he is so passionate about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael</p><p>ANA R-162953[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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