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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 908784, member: 16948&quot;]First, let me just say that I don&#039;t believe anyone has to justify or explain how much they do or don&#039;t earn - to anyone on the planet!&nbsp; And since when did that matter to being involved in and enjoying collecting coins????&nbsp; GEESE!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That being said, when I first read Tom&#039;s post about CT beinhg made up more of &quot;upper class&quot; type people, I thought I misread his post and had to do a doubletake, because my experience here on CT especially has been the exact opposite.&nbsp; With only a few exceptions, the people who post here have been the most down to earth, &quot;regular&quot; coin people I&#039;ve experienced, NO ONE MORE SO THAN JACK.&nbsp; Jack has freely given his time, knowledge, experience, and even money to help others here on CT.&nbsp; He has even given up his frequent flyer mileage just to sponser other CT people to be able to attend a large coin show.&nbsp; Who else can say they&#039;ve done even 1/10th of that for strangers they only met here on a coin forum?&nbsp; Not me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t know what you guys mean by &quot;300,000&quot; but I am guessing you are referring to annual income?&nbsp; I buy and post some pretty nice coins here, some cost me quite a lot, but that doesn&#039;t mean I fall into any kind of high income bracket, not at all.&nbsp; I love coins and buy and sell coins to earn a living, and I get to see some pretty amazing pieces out there, some of which I bend over backwards and do what I can to be able to acquire.&nbsp; I make sacrafices.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No one, not you or anyone here on the boards, know what I do or what anyone else does or what kind of sacrafices we make to buy our coins - and I/we don&#039;t owe anyone - not anyone - an explanation about any of this.&nbsp; Nor does anyone owe anyone an explanation as to why they collect what they do, no matter how expensive or inexepensive it is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Coins are about enjoyment to most people, and if those coins happen to be a good investment as well, all the better.&nbsp; Tom, who are you to classify and judge people based on their collecting desires and thoughts, or to compare them to the people who caused the oil spill, etc.&nbsp; Wow, if I may say, to me you are way off base, and quite inappropriate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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