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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1464413, member: 4381&quot;]<b><p style="text-align: center">It’s nice work if you can get it..</p><p></b></p><p><br /></p><p>The June 2012 edition of Coinworld has a nice cometary piece by Q. David Bowers which bares noting for a number of reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, to my knowledge, Bowers need to produce a monthly article for Coinworld, which is often not easy to do.&nbsp; The need to meet a deadline with a new topic is a daunting task and not easy.&nbsp; This months article was called “Cherry pick for quality”, but I’m not certain that it reaches its target audience which is likely new to middle collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bowers puts forth a meandering memoir of his collecting history starting in 1952, and tells the story of his relationship with a bank and cherry picking through rolls of Lincoln cents, eventually acquiring a near&nbsp; perfect collection of cents minus the 1909 VDB S cent..</p><p><br /></p><p>But then the disconnect begins.&nbsp; Because when Q. David Bowers decides to cherry-pick, it is not like you and I.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bowers, off offhandedly, proceeds to tel the story of his desire to put together a cet of PROOF 65 RED and Brown examples of Indian Head Cents.&nbsp; Say what?</p><p><br /></p><p>Is Bowers going to look thought a hundred thousand Lincoln rolls to cherry pick top echelon Proof Indian Heads?</p><p><br /></p><p>No.</p><p><br /></p><p>Will he sift through thousands of Estate Collections....</p><p><br /></p><p>No.</p><p><br /></p><p>Will he&nbsp; advertise of select pieces in Coinworld and Cointalk...</p><p><br /></p><p>No.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bowers talks to the lovely <a href="http://stacksbowers.com/common/coinandcurrencyexperts.aspx?bid=26" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stacksbowers.com/common/coinandcurrencyexperts.aspx?bid=26" rel="nofollow"> Melissa Karstedt </a> from the Stacks office in New Hampshire, to do the cherry picking for him through nearly ever collection brought to Stacks retail galleries and endless numbers of coin shows.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ll tell yah, its good work if you can get it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://stacksbowers.com/images/Experts/MelissaKarstedtWeb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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