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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3195694, member: 19165&quot;]Sorry, VKB, but I think that is a load of bollocks. I&#039;ve been collecting for 32 years, and I&#039;ve never been to one of those classes. I&#039;ve read quite a few books though. I&#039;ve been to quite a few shows. And I&#039;ve looked at thousands of threads and pictures on CoinTalk and the NGC forums. I suppose you could say I&#039;m making do, but I think I&#039;m doing alright.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that may work for you. In the modern era, for many collectors, the internet has opened up a wide range of possibilities. Just this year, I&#039;ve bought coins from sellers in New York, California, Florida, Texas, Virginia, Spain, Russia, Germany, Austria, Japan, China, and Brazil. These are all coins that I saw pictures of on the internet, and evaluated them solely through their photographs. (some of them were slabbed by NGC, some of them were raw)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d never have been able to do that in the world you live in, but my collection is so much more complete because of it. If I limited myself to only the coins that I saw at the shows I was able to go to (and I go to more shows than a lot of people on this website), I&#039;d never have anything close to the collection I do.</p><p><br /></p><p>If that works for you, and you are happy with your limited view of the hobby, then great for you. But, please realize that in this century, there is a whole world wide web of information and photographs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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