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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 13094, member: 57463&quot;]I completed the Introduction to Numismatics and then Grading U.S. Coins Today.&nbsp; Since then, many other course have been added and I am remiss in not following through with more education.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ANA courses -- as ANA membership itself -- are pretty much my baseline definition for deciding whether or not someone is &quot;really&quot; a numismatist or a &quot;serious&quot; collector.&nbsp; I mean, you can FEEL dreadfully &quot;serious&quot; inside when you buy and sell, but if you do not have the basic knowledge, you are perhaps kidding yourself about being dreadfully serious.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, there is the problem of &quot;cognitative dissonance&quot; and rationalization.&nbsp; You and I took the classes, so you and I feel they are important and useful.&nbsp; It would require some hard objectivity to say that we passed with High Honors and found it a waste of time.&nbsp; That said, I still found the ANA correspondence courses to be valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael</p><p>ANA R-162953[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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