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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3170097, member: 71723"]Hoo boy! High risk here. There is, as far as I know, ONE issue in numismatics in which Mr. [USER=36230]@BooksB4Coins[/USER] here and I are on diametrically opposite sides of the issue. I won't even describe what it is here because a) we will NEVER see eye-to-eye on it, and b) we've EACH read each other's writings on the subject ad nauseam and we have each been unsuccessful at moving the other's opinion one iota on that one particular highly controversial topic. So I stopped bringing it up with him. I avoid it. Discussing it with him serves no purpose, and I respect "Books" so much on what might be LITERALLY every other numismatic topic as far as I am aware, that it is not worth damaging that relationship with that one issue. Yes, I discuss it with others on occasion, as I did with some at Philly last week, but I have decided to NOT bug "Books" with it any more. I like him too much. Full disclosure: I once put "Books" on "ignore" over it, and I decided I was missing out on too much, so I changed my mind about him. Not about that one issue, about HIM. Whether he knows it or not, EVEN that vociferous argument has led to my changing MY opinion of MY responsibility into the future should I choose to collect these highly controversial pieces, and even that has value.[/QUOTE]