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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2467803, member: 71723"]Really? You haven't seen that here? Look around a little. Here's the key problem with the coin collector "personality disorders" I observe. 1) Some are here (the whole hobby) to turn a quick buck, period, and have no time for learning or teaching. As a contrast, I offer the motto of the Chicago Coin Club: "Docendo Discimus", which translates as "We learn by teaching." Whoa. Deep, right? 2) Some are uber-intellectuals and have learned what they know from many years of independent and self-directed reading, study and repeated examination of coins, and would prefer they just be believed and not questioned over things they decided decades ago were settled knowledge. Whether they/we are self-aware enough to admit that the "just Google it or ask a discussion Board" culture just bugs them/us at some level, varies quite a bit. I need to fight it daily. I have a coin club friend who works in a coin store part time since his retirement who dismisses anything on the web as worthless and useless. If it's not in a "dead tree" book, to him it's unreliable. Some of a certain age are not unaware of the Internet, they are outright hostile to its very existence.[/QUOTE]