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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3086401, member: 10461&quot;]Geez, [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER], give a fella some time!&nbsp; Did you read Post #2?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s taken me two days just to get this far, and I&#039;ve got another couple dozen writeups to catch up on.&nbsp; Nearly two <i>years</i> worth of purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whatsamatter with posting an utterly unscientific poll, for fun?&nbsp; I rather like doing that, as you may have noticed. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And just because I enjoy polling other people&#039;s responses doesn&#039;t mean I&#039;m incapable of forming my <i>own</i> feelings about a coin, as you seem to imply.&nbsp; And don&#039;t think that the retooling of these subthreads has anything to do with the polls.&nbsp; Those just appear at the top of the page by default.&nbsp; I only decided to start adding them this morning.&nbsp; There were more important reasons behind my reformatting.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to my detecting stories, those were easier to write because I usually had firsthand knowledge of what I was talking about.&nbsp; With ancient and medieval coins, such confidence in my own scholarship is not a given.&nbsp; Detailed writeups take time and thought.&nbsp; Sure, I&#039;m enthusiastic, and I know a <i>little</i> bit about them - even enough to string together a semi-coherent sentence or two - but I often start from a much less educated position with an ancient or medieval coin purchase.&nbsp; I buy based more on gut intuition and aesthetic appeal, then learn the finer points later.&nbsp; This makes doing writeups difficult at first.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once I get caught up with the writeups, I intend to make Post #2 in these writeup threads just the sort of thing you&#039;re suggesting: the personal commentary.&nbsp; Maybe a paragraph about a coin&#039;s history and then a rundown of some &quot;pro &amp; con&quot; bullet points, like the <a href="http://www.antiquesage.com/france-1848-ae-essai-10-centimes-pcgs/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.antiquesage.com/france-1848-ae-essai-10-centimes-pcgs/" rel="nofollow">Antique Sage</a> site does.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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