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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4539795, member: 10461"]True. Maybe I don't need to feel so bewildered by the information overload and all the minutiae, either. I mean, it's always good to know (and didrachm vs tetradrachm is <i>definitely</i> information I want to know).</p><p><br /></p><p>But maybe I should try to fret less about not knowing so much. (Literally "don't sweat the details", in other words.) Maybe I'll just settle on trying to get the issuing authority, denomination, rough date range, composition, diameter, and weight on a coin, and lean on Wikipedia for the basic history, but leave the finding of catalog numbers and seemingly arcane century-old reference books to others, who are better at that sort of thing. (But of course it's always nice when the more scholarly folk step up to help with that.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4539795, member: 10461"]True. Maybe I don't need to feel so bewildered by the information overload and all the minutiae, either. I mean, it's always good to know (and didrachm vs tetradrachm is [I]definitely[/I] information I want to know). But maybe I should try to fret less about not knowing so much. (Literally "don't sweat the details", in other words.) Maybe I'll just settle on trying to get the issuing authority, denomination, rough date range, composition, diameter, and weight on a coin, and lean on Wikipedia for the basic history, but leave the finding of catalog numbers and seemingly arcane century-old reference books to others, who are better at that sort of thing. (But of course it's always nice when the more scholarly folk step up to help with that.)[/QUOTE]
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