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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2702774, member: 71723"]This thread speaks to my frustration I have expressed from time to time when newbies come on CT with "errors which are not", as if finding errors is the main thing in numismatics. I'm in year number 54 as a collector, and errors (MAJOR ones - stuff Fred Weinberg handles) are still only a peripheral interest to me. I'll stop and "lean in sideways" at his table (so as not to screen out serious customers) just to see if there's anything there that I don't know how it was created. It's to be sure I know as much about the minting process as I think I do, not an interest in collecting them. I like Fred. If you see a pic of Fred on the ANA's website about his (first in the series) Legacy Series interview, that's my photograph. That interview kindled more interest in how Fred acquires his stuff (fascinating in its own right), but it's never going to be something I care about enough to want to look at buying it. There ARE error specialists, but they take up only 1-3% of the space on a bourse floor usually.[/QUOTE]