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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1981591, member: 26302"]Ancient collectors are lucky there are lots of good websites now for them. Back in the day, we had to settle for yahoo groups and the like. </p><p><br /></p><p>The one thing to be careful of, though, is accuracy. There are lots of good sites, like Doug's, but others iffy sites. Most of the time they are done by well meaing folks, but are simply inaccurate because the site owner doesn't know any better. That is the one huge issue with the internet, lack of editorial and proof reader oversite. I do not believe most appreciate this enough. I have seen attritbution errors repeated over and over on the internet. These sites are great, but if you wish to be sure of something, you always have to go back to the source documents. There ARE really good attribution sites. I would accept CNG attributions almost without question. Things like Wildwinds, though, being culled from what any dealer attributes a coin as, has tons of errors. Like most things in life, evaluating the source is critical.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1981591, member: 26302"]Ancient collectors are lucky there are lots of good websites now for them. Back in the day, we had to settle for yahoo groups and the like. The one thing to be careful of, though, is accuracy. There are lots of good sites, like Doug's, but others iffy sites. Most of the time they are done by well meaing folks, but are simply inaccurate because the site owner doesn't know any better. That is the one huge issue with the internet, lack of editorial and proof reader oversite. I do not believe most appreciate this enough. I have seen attritbution errors repeated over and over on the internet. These sites are great, but if you wish to be sure of something, you always have to go back to the source documents. There ARE really good attribution sites. I would accept CNG attributions almost without question. Things like Wildwinds, though, being culled from what any dealer attributes a coin as, has tons of errors. Like most things in life, evaluating the source is critical.[/QUOTE]
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