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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1029824, member: 112&quot;]Let me ask you a question - they were called that by whom ? Some other folks on a coin forum ? </p><p><br /></p><p>You see that&#039;s the problem Paul. People read things on a forum and they believe it. Then they start doing it. And pretty soon you have a bunch of bad information that everyone believes to be true. The internet is full of bad information. It kind of goes back to something else I say all the time - accuracy in usage of terminology is extremely important in this hobby. This is a good example of why - because it leads people to believe something that just isn&#039;t true.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not trying to be stubborn or just give people a hard time. I&#039;m merely trying to present accurate information and get people to understand it so that they may further their education and better understand this hobby. You can&#039;t do that by allowing bad information to continue to be accepted as factual. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s kind of like allowing somebody to think that the 1804 dollars were minted in 1804. Do you think for one second that the Class III dollars would be worth millions of dollars if the public had always understood how they came to be ? No, they wouldn&#039;t. They&#039;d just be another of a long list of fantasy coins that sold for a few bucks each. But because of bad information that was fomented for decades and decades they now sell for millions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now imagine a collector sees a high dollar coin that has lines on it, but because he has always read that they are just &quot;die polishing&quot; lines and that is acceptable, he goes ahead and pays full price for that coin. It&#039;s the same thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you go ahead and believe what you want, most people do. But for those few who are willing to listen, even if it&#039;s just one, then I have accomplished what I set out to do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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