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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2897822, member: 19463&quot;]Call it a complaint if you wish but long posts with many similar coins can get confusing if it is not always clear which coin was being discussed.&nbsp; In this case, I saw JA&#039;s post making a correct point about Nicomedia before I had seen or taken note of the Nicomedia coin so I thought he was talking about the Heraclea one.&nbsp; Very shortly afterwards I figured that out but it is why I prefer one coin per thread posts unless the coins are being compared or have some relation to each other beyond coming from the same &#039;bag&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, I am easy to confuse when someone does a pile on post and other folks start commenting on one coin or the other without quoting or making note of which coin they were looking at when they said &#039;nice coin&#039; or &#039;fake&#039; or whatever.&nbsp; I like to see other coins as much as the next person but I do like to be sure I know if we are discussing the same coin.&nbsp; The simple answer is to highlight a small part of the post you are commenting on and hitting reply:</p><p><br /></p><p>After you look at a greater number of these coins you will see that some mint ID&#039;s are as easily made from clues like how each mint chose to show workshops.&nbsp; Some coins don&#039;t have a city mark but are quite distinctive because of some characteristic like where they placed a letter or what style letters they used.&nbsp; How do you learn this?&nbsp; Pay attention to coins as they appear before you.&nbsp; After 10,000 or so, you will see things with different eyes than before.&nbsp; That is why we value the opinions of people like Barry Murphy, David Vagi and David Sear (who sell those services) or a thousand dealers who provide them as part of what you pay for when buying a coin.&nbsp; Many of those guys handled more coins yesterday than some of us saw in photos last year (decade?).&nbsp; This is not a subject you cram for the night before the exam only to forget when the grade cards come out.&nbsp; Look at as many coins as you can in whatever way you can (in hand is a thousand times better but pencil rubbings have value, too). Keep an open mind to what you see and realize that you will make a few thousand errors along the road to enlightenment and ask as may questions as you are willing to hear answered.&nbsp; Realize that not all questions can be answered as simply as you might wish and &quot;don&#039;t know&quot; or &quot;best guess&quot; can be legitimate options.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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