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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 3573727, member: 15199&quot;]If you read the history of gold discovery in California, one would see the similarity to the Youtube/internet&#039;s &#039;Free gold in your pocket change&#039; type of books and videos. The estimate is that close to a half million people from outside of the state came in to make their fortunes, &quot; why you can pick up the gold from the ground the minute you get off of the ship&quot;, but the vast majority went broke or died for their efforts of looking for gold, even though some had never seen flakes or black sand,&nbsp; they were sure they were finger size nuggets on the ground just around the corner.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Same with varieties and true mint errors today, only it is not California, it is coin forums on the internet that have had the run of newcomers looking for the big nuggets even though they would miss the majority of what they are actually looking for if it was in their pocket already, so they carry pyrite in their hand asking why isn&#039;t every one trying to buy this from me....its gold. Like many I started before the internet and spent many times more money on books and publications before I acquired my first variety, and I still have them. Knowledge has to be acquired and its not easy, there is no app on the phone for that. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When I was a kid, my very religious mother took us to an &quot;Old Fashion Tent Revival&quot;&nbsp; and the speaker said that astronomers had seen the &quot;Golden city of God heading for earth to pick up &quot;True believers&quot;&nbsp; and to my mother&#039;s chagrin, I said a little too loudly,&nbsp; &quot;No they haven&#039;t!&quot; because I read every issue of sky and telescope that came to the library....My poor mother...I am sorry now to have caused her such embarrassment, but sometimes a damaged coin has to be called outright and loudly a damaged coin. IMO,&nbsp; Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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