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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JimsOkay, post: 7436520, member: 119563&quot;]I guess I am a newbie starting over again fifty years later. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wow, the information available today boggles my mind! </p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a kid all I had was a red book and coin newspapers. You had no real choice, but to learn the basics without any help. Today kids have a whole new set of tools with no gatekeepers and that&#039;s a plus and a minus. They also handle information or lack of, much differently than &quot;old&quot; collectors. It&#039;s not their fault that their process is vastly different today as that&#039;s their world now. They are also moving at a pace that&#039;s so much faster than mine, everything is instantaneously vs having to wait till you get to the library or a LCS before you could possibly have an answer or be pointed in another direction.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I have a penny without a mint mark&quot;!!!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What newbie didn&#039;t get excited about a great possible coin? If they didn&#039;t then they would surely lose interest in the hobby pretty quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, they could take the time and patience&#039;s to s-l-o-w-l-y look for more information before declaring the greatest find of the year, but they don&#039;t move slow, slow isn&#039;t a plus for them at all. Be proven right or wrong and then move on. </p><p>I try not to be a Luddite, but the amount of information that crossed me monthly as a kid is probably how much they see in one morning today. They are different, no right or wrong here, just a fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>True, they need to learn to look a bit farther first and maybe they do? The good thing about newbies is that they will kept the hobby going and that is great!!</p><p><br /></p><p>That was my two-cents (bad pun,I know) and now I have to go out and yell at those darn kids to get off my lawn!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ps enjoyed the thread, I&#039;m learning a lot. Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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