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<p>[QUOTE="cjh1985, post: 653794, member: 19846"]Thanks, Vess1. Love the Morgan example. And that dealers are not graders - good point.</p><p> </p><p>You folks are the masters (to one degree or another) and I have the ultimate respect for all of you:bow:. I'm not going to even try to duplicate your knowledge in this field.</p><p>What is cool, though, is because of technology, a person new to the field (any field), who is focused and dedicated (as much as I can be with a full time job and family of 5) can beef up his knowledge quicker than ever before. For example, I have been going to Heritage auctions, pulling up certain coins, blowing up the photograph, and studying them (looking at them in a clockwise fashion as I was instructed in one of the books I'm reading). And what's great is many times, in the comments section, Heritage (or whoever) will state the flaws of the coin i.e "2 rivets in the shield of the SLQ are not struck well but that it is common in an MSXX graded coin". So in effect they are teaching me what to look for with certain series and certain grades. (<b>PLEASE DON'T TAKE THAT THE WRONG WAY, I DON'T KNOW 1/1000 OF WHAT YOU FOLKS DO - and will never</b>) it's just kind a cool how technology can help people learn <u>anything</u> faster than ever before.</p><p>I'd love to be picking your all of your brains in person, it would be a blast, but at least it's something.</p><p> </p><p>I'll let you know how it goes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cjh1985, post: 653794, member: 19846"]Thanks, Vess1. Love the Morgan example. And that dealers are not graders - good point. You folks are the masters (to one degree or another) and I have the ultimate respect for all of you:bow:. I'm not going to even try to duplicate your knowledge in this field. What is cool, though, is because of technology, a person new to the field (any field), who is focused and dedicated (as much as I can be with a full time job and family of 5) can beef up his knowledge quicker than ever before. For example, I have been going to Heritage auctions, pulling up certain coins, blowing up the photograph, and studying them (looking at them in a clockwise fashion as I was instructed in one of the books I'm reading). And what's great is many times, in the comments section, Heritage (or whoever) will state the flaws of the coin i.e "2 rivets in the shield of the SLQ are not struck well but that it is common in an MSXX graded coin". So in effect they are teaching me what to look for with certain series and certain grades. ([B]PLEASE DON'T TAKE THAT THE WRONG WAY, I DON'T KNOW 1/1000 OF WHAT YOU FOLKS DO - and will never[/B]) it's just kind a cool how technology can help people learn [U]anything[/U] faster than ever before. I'd love to be picking your all of your brains in person, it would be a blast, but at least it's something. I'll let you know how it goes.[/QUOTE]
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