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<p>[QUOTE="l.cutler, post: 4003931, member: 13318"]Like most people here, I have a decent general knowledge of coins but pretty darn good in my narrow collecting focus. I also have over a thousand dollars worth of reference books relating to my area of interest. A while back I responded to a post asking for help attributing a coin, this was not even on this forum but another that I frequent. He stated that he didn't have the reference material for this particular series. Now, those of you who attribute by die variety know how time consuming this can be at times. I spent at least a couple of hours going through the material and found that the posters coin was a pretty rare R7 variety. I posted the results and did get a thank you. I immediately saw the coin on ebay with my attribution touting the rareness of it. the seller was a fairly high volume coin seller. I assumed I was ID'ing the coin for another collector for his knowledge, although in fairness the poster never said what his reason for wanting the coin identified was. Am I out of line in thinking that if someone is planning on profiting from coins then they should pony up the money and effort for their own research? I actually would have liked to have the coin but decided not to bid and run the price up higher. I think after this when someone asks for info on something I have knowledge of I will question them a little bit about the coin first before helping.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="l.cutler, post: 4003931, member: 13318"]Like most people here, I have a decent general knowledge of coins but pretty darn good in my narrow collecting focus. I also have over a thousand dollars worth of reference books relating to my area of interest. A while back I responded to a post asking for help attributing a coin, this was not even on this forum but another that I frequent. He stated that he didn't have the reference material for this particular series. Now, those of you who attribute by die variety know how time consuming this can be at times. I spent at least a couple of hours going through the material and found that the posters coin was a pretty rare R7 variety. I posted the results and did get a thank you. I immediately saw the coin on ebay with my attribution touting the rareness of it. the seller was a fairly high volume coin seller. I assumed I was ID'ing the coin for another collector for his knowledge, although in fairness the poster never said what his reason for wanting the coin identified was. Am I out of line in thinking that if someone is planning on profiting from coins then they should pony up the money and effort for their own research? I actually would have liked to have the coin but decided not to bid and run the price up higher. I think after this when someone asks for info on something I have knowledge of I will question them a little bit about the coin first before helping.[/QUOTE]
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