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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2485447, member: 71723"]I don't dislike him. I don't know the gentleman personally. I do however dislike the way he has exhibited his complete lack of understanding of the law, yet he feels his opinion on this case needs to be given deference because "numismatic experts" have said 'thus and so' about it. Allow me to digress, please. Look, there's "common man common sense" and then again there's "thinking like a lawyer" which is what law schools teach, not so much the law itself. These two thought processes frequently approach diametric opposition. My more than 50 years as an active coin collector, more than 10 as an academically oriented  numismatist, and 12 years working in and administering law have taught me that the modal personality types of coin people and that of being able to understand what law means, are nearly never compatible. An entrepreneurial mind and a legal mind nearly never intersect. As it turns out, coin people have a nearly complete lack of "knowing what they don't know", and I find Mr. Feld to be a prototype.[/QUOTE]