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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2372371, member: 71723&quot;]Clue #1 - Do not use websites to do serious research. It is too easy to create bogus sites with either intentionally or accidentally bogus information. This is ESPECIALLY true where there can be a financial motive to deceive the reader - as in EVERYTHING related to coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My best advice is put down the stupid mouse and buy or borrow a dead tree book. Newbs can save themselves LOTS of pain by staying off the internet regarding coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Read the next lines with the annoying Millennial speech pattern where every utterance goes up in pitch at the end like a question:</p><p>There used to be the people(?), called editors(?) and publishers(?) who would fact-check stuff(?) so garbage wouldn&#039;t get out in the mainstream(?), like y&#039;know(?).</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the internet happened and we now are more ignorant than we&#039;ve ever been as a society.</p><p><br /></p><p>When next in a Borders, or heaven forfend a public library, check out (either figuratively or literally, depending on which) <i>The Cult of the Amateur: How Today&#039;s Internet is Killing Our Culture</i> by Andrew Keen, published by Doubleday/Currency. It was copyrighted nine years ago and the problem it describes has only gotten orders of magnitude worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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