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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 731960, member: 16948&quot;]Allow me to post my opinion on the discussion about learning to grade from slabs, etc.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t have to be an &quot;either/or&quot; thing.&nbsp; But learning to grade, however you want to go about doing it, is the most important thing you could do for yourself as a coin collector.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Using slabs, as Illini said, is a great way to start, but I would also add that finding a competent coin person you trust and respect and is willing to &quot;mentor&quot; you in learning to grade is even better.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As I&#039;ve said before, TPS&#039;s are only human beings with their own ideas and experience or training so they will not get it &quot;right&quot; (whatever that definition means relating to grading) all the time, so you need to learn from other sources as well, and put that learning all together to form what you feel (and what the market bears) are good grading skills.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding BNB &quot;retiring,&quot; I think, as he himself stated, he used that term a little loosely and we shouldn&#039;t be so quick to look at it in such a negative or laughable (as some here are doing) thing.&nbsp; I think and my take is that BNB may have realized that he has gotten into this a little too quickly (maybe even a little over his head?) and is taking more of a breather to gather himself and decide which direction he wants to head, whether it be with coins or school or whatever.&nbsp; So perhaps &quot;retiring&quot; was the wrong choice of words, maybe &quot;taking a breather&quot; is more appropriate?</p><p><br /></p><p>And teaching others what he has learned is a good thing to want to do.&nbsp; And BNB, as others have said, be sure you KNOW what you are talking about before you pass information on to &quot;newbies&quot; as they will not know whether what you teach is correct or not.&nbsp; I think some feel that you haven&#039;t learned enough to be able to teach others.&nbsp; But I am sure you have learned some good and positive things through this brief experience of yours, so just be sure to pass on good quality information.</p><p><br /></p><p>And whether BNB has the money to buy expensive coins, or do nothing, or whether he works with his hands or his mind, I don&#039;t think this is for us to judge and is really none of our business, so personally I don&#039;t see why that even needs to be addressed or commented upon. </p><p><br /></p><p>And lastly, I have to agree, whether you like or agree or disagree with BNB&#039;s posts, they seem to always end up being entertaining but informative (however, we can all do without the negativity that often ends up in his threads).&nbsp; I have given BNB my input in several of his threads, and sometimes I get frustrated when I read his posts, but we don&#039;t all have to agree or like what other people say or do, but at least here on CoinTalk, we should all be respectful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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