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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 114001, member: 3011&quot;]bogsnj,</p><p><br /></p><p>Just so you know you aren&#039;t the only one in your situation, I too have had a difficult time getting up to speed with no outside help other than books and the internet.&nbsp; Speedy&#039;s advice is very sound.&nbsp; I would just add a few things in case they aren&#039;t in the books:</p><p><br /></p><p>Decide what your hobby goals are before spending a lot of money. </p><p><br /></p><p>Specialize.&nbsp; There is too much to learn to know everything.&nbsp; So if you can narrow it down to one or two things like commemoratives, or silver dollars, or modern gold, or nickels or anything else it will help.&nbsp; If this sounds boring, maybe you really want to build a type set to start with to see a little of everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Realize that dealers are out to make money, not necessarily to help you unless you are pretty good friends.&nbsp; I just had another experience this week speaking to a dealer I hadn&#039;t dealt with before.&nbsp; He was more interested in convincing me to buy what he had to sell, which was about twice the amount I had to spend,&nbsp; than discovering what I wanted to buy, so no sale took place.&nbsp; The dealers aren&#039;t necessarily bad people, and usually there is no criminal intent <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> but many tend to be bad listeners and not particularly great business people.&nbsp; A few will cut your heart out if they sense you are a rookie.&nbsp; So know what you want and approximately what you are willing to pay and stick to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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