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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AngelKitty, post: 1450697, member: 37889&quot;]Erm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honorable effort, but when I said &quot;the best way to fight unscrupulous sellers &lt;...&gt; is to educate new collectors about them,&quot; this wasn&#039;t really what I meant. All of this stuff is really common sense stuff and it leaves out a bunch of stuff, some of which others have already pointed out - there is much, much, much, MUCH more that needs to be known than this. What is the difference between cleaning and conservation? How do you tell if a coin has been cleaned? If I&#039;m buying online, what signs of cleaning should I look for in a photo? How can I tell if a photo&#039;s been edited? <i>Can </i>I tell if a photo&#039;s been edited? If there&#039;s a $900 price difference between an XF coin and an AU coin, how do I tell the difference between the two grades so I don&#039;t get tricked? How do you tell a forgery from a fake? How do I tell real errors from PMD/faked errors? Among other questions I&#039;m probably forgetting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of these can only be learned through experience. Also, IMO an online auction house is hardly the best place for a new collector to buy coins. Yeah, you can buy slabs all you want, but the best place for a new collector to buy coins would be at a dealer or coin show, under the guidance of someone with <i>experience</i>, so that the new collector can hold the coins, see them in person before purchase, examine them get an idea of what coins should look like and what certain grades look like, etc. An Internet photo can only show you so much and can hide things you would see in person. I know, I&#039;ve <i>experienced </i>this myself, for better and for worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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