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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3248905, member: 112"]When it comes right down to it those with the necessary experience and knowledge can almost always identify a harshly/improperly cleaned coin at a glance. It's a lot like grading in that regard. It only takes a few seconds to do either. But it takes people years to get to that point !</p><p><br /></p><p>For most people anyway. I'm reminded of a story that one our past moderators once told me. In fact he is a story in and of himself. He first came to the forum just like anybody else, but he showed what I thought was a profound willingness and desire to learn. And learn he did. Eventually he became a moderator, not that has anything to do with it really for mods are not chosen based on their knowledge, they are chosen based on their personality and character traits. But he did become one, it is part of his story. Eventually he applied for and got a job at PCGS as a grader. Then later he left PCGS and got a job working for Heritage as a buyer - probably the toughest to get and highest paid job there is in numismatics. And then later he even quit that and went on his own, started his own business.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the story that he told was one that just about all who ever heard it found quite surprising. It was about one of the other graders who worked at PCGS, and this grader was considered by those at PCGS to be the best, simply the best. But here's the surprising part - he was only 19 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that's why I said above - for most people anyway. For I have just related about 2 people who were able to acquire the knowledge they needed to do their jobs, and do them quite well, in a very short period of time. And the ability to do that, well to say that it's rare, doesn't even come close. It just doesn't.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've always thought that I picked up on things rather quickly, quicker than most even. But I couldn't hold a candle to either one of those guys when it came to how quickly they did it. For some reason for them it all just clicked.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there's people like that in every field, not just numismatics. But most of the rest of us have to put in the time, the effort, the study, and gain the physical experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3248905, member: 112"]When it comes right down to it those with the necessary experience and knowledge can almost always identify a harshly/improperly cleaned coin at a glance. It's a lot like grading in that regard. It only takes a few seconds to do either. But it takes people years to get to that point ! For most people anyway. I'm reminded of a story that one our past moderators once told me. In fact he is a story in and of himself. He first came to the forum just like anybody else, but he showed what I thought was a profound willingness and desire to learn. And learn he did. Eventually he became a moderator, not that has anything to do with it really for mods are not chosen based on their knowledge, they are chosen based on their personality and character traits. But he did become one, it is part of his story. Eventually he applied for and got a job at PCGS as a grader. Then later he left PCGS and got a job working for Heritage as a buyer - probably the toughest to get and highest paid job there is in numismatics. And then later he even quit that and went on his own, started his own business. But the story that he told was one that just about all who ever heard it found quite surprising. It was about one of the other graders who worked at PCGS, and this grader was considered by those at PCGS to be the best, simply the best. But here's the surprising part - he was only 19 years old. And that's why I said above - for most people anyway. For I have just related about 2 people who were able to acquire the knowledge they needed to do their jobs, and do them quite well, in a very short period of time. And the ability to do that, well to say that it's rare, doesn't even come close. It just doesn't. I've always thought that I picked up on things rather quickly, quicker than most even. But I couldn't hold a candle to either one of those guys when it came to how quickly they did it. For some reason for them it all just clicked. And there's people like that in every field, not just numismatics. But most of the rest of us have to put in the time, the effort, the study, and gain the physical experience.[/QUOTE]
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