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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2486300, member: 19463&quot;]No!&nbsp; I&#039;d really rather those of you who are not interested in coins don&#039;t waste their time reading my posts.&nbsp; If all you want to know about your coins is grade and resale there is nothing for you here.&nbsp; Zumby regularly gives us interesting things about a wide variety of wonderful coins but...</p><p><br /></p><p>The worst part of the hobby to me has been finding people who were interested enough in the same subjects as I that we could converse on the subject.&nbsp; I am poor at timing.&nbsp; When I lived near Dumbarton Oaks, I was not interested in coins that late.&nbsp; They knew a lot about their ugliest of bronzes, too, but put those golds out for public ogling.&nbsp; Now I seem to find more posts on grade and value than on coins.&nbsp; Investing is not a hobby for me.&nbsp; I have a broker for that. </p><p><br /></p><p>I rarely agree so much with Insider.&nbsp; We approach coins from such a different angle we will have little to discuss.&nbsp; He is pretty much correct about this being a wasted post and highlighted the reason exactly as I see it.&nbsp; Zumbly backed up his opinion and discussed the features he saw that would not fit on a slab label but would most certainly been considered by the experts who would decide whether the coin was &#039;fake&#039; or &#039;details&#039;.&nbsp; I was hoping that posters would back up their opinions or even point out whether their experience with such coins included others with edge work.&nbsp; chrsmat did look at his similar coin and I understand his being distracted by the green monster and not telling what he saw other than green.&nbsp; Best wishes on the hospital process;&nbsp; don&#039;t catch something worse than you had when you went in.</p><p><br /></p><p>I apologize for posting this waste of time here.&nbsp; I&#039;ll try to avoid future outings of the type.&nbsp; If anyone wishes to discuss a coin, please feel free to &#039;Conversation&#039; me.&nbsp; As Alegandron correctly pointed out, it takes more than 25 years to learn the subject.&nbsp; 250 years might be closer.&nbsp; We do what we can.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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