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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 2362060, member: 73165&quot;]FYI, it&#039;s not always the best idea to post so much info on the internet.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just saying.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I really like your idea in principle, but there are so many different ways to collect coins that I don&#039;t think any one product like this can fulfill that purpose.&nbsp; You&#039;re going to want to narrow your focus and reign in your ambitions a bit!&nbsp; Just think about how there are US collectors, world collectors, and ancient collectors, and subgroups within those groups.&nbsp; How can any one group of coins of books or coins can satisfy all of them!&nbsp; What is a state quarter going to do for someone with a budding interest in ancients?&nbsp; Vice versa, what is a crusty Constantine bronze going to do for a budding modern US collector?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not to dash your hopes, but there is an entire book out there that does this really really well, written by someone who&#039;s been dealing coins longer than you and I have been breathing (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Experts-Guide-Collecting-Investing-Coins/dp/0794821782" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Experts-Guide-Collecting-Investing-Coins/dp/0794821782" rel="nofollow">The Expert&#039;s Guide to Collecting &amp; Investing in Rare Coins by Q. David Bowers). </a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again... entire books are dedicated to authentication and identification.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I suggest.&nbsp; Rather than going point by point through your list (which is a great start, I agree), if I were you, I&#039;d reduce the scope of the project from a product you&#039;d be attempting to sell on Amazon to a nice introductory article with an annotated bibliography and maybe a poster presentation to go with it.&nbsp; I think you&#039;ll be better served with a less ambitious project done very well than a very ambitious project done less well.&nbsp; (Not that I&#039;m saying you don&#039;t have the capability to do it well, just that it&#039;s immensely harder to do so, and I&#039;m assuming you have other responsibilities.)</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, if you want to try your hand at buying and selling coins and trying to make money, I think that would be a good learning experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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