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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3313332, member: 27832&quot;]I&#039;ll add my voice to those welcoming you, [USER=100279]@sunday13[/USER], and add one other thing:</p><p><br /></p><p>We get people here every day who&#039;ve read about a rarity online, or watched a YouTube video, and think they&#039;ve found one in their pocket change. Rarities are <i>rare</i>, and the chances of finding one in change are small -- it does happen, just like people do win the lottery, but a lot more people lose.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of those people don&#039;t like hearing that they haven&#039;t &quot;struck it rich&quot;, and storm off in a huff, insisting that we don&#039;t know what we&#039;re talking about. Frequently, their parting comment is &quot;I&#039;m going to go ahead and send it in, and then you&#039;ll see!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Almost none of them EVER</b> come back and post a follow-up showing the graded coin. It may be because they never actually sent the coin in, or it may be because they got it back in a slab confirming that it&#039;s common and/or damaged, and they don&#039;t want to be held up for ridicule.</p><p><br /></p><p>You didn&#039;t post here first asking about your coin, but you <i>did</i> post your results. That&#039;s valuable to every new collector who stumbles across CoinTalk. Thank you for doing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And to those members here who started to pile on about sending a low-value coin for authentication: think about what you&#039;re doing. Think about the two behaviors that we see here -- newbies insisting that they know better than us (every day), and newbies <i>admitting they made a mistake</i> (a lot less frequent). Think about which one you&#039;d rather see, and think about which one your replies are encouraging.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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