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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2554648, member: 1892&quot;]That explains a previous post of yours which rather shocked me at the time. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot look to any specific coin or purchase to define my &quot;greatest success&quot; in the hobby, although there are a few which might qualify. Rather, it&#039;s been more in finding ways to express my overwhelming interest in the hobby - hell, let&#039;s call it the <b>obsession</b> that it is - <i>without</i> basing it on specific coins or collections thereof. For me, it&#039;s all about the knowledge anyway; I&#039;m as giggly learning something new about an Ike Dollar as I am a Morgan or a Half Dime. On my terms, my greatest success has come from forcing myself to learn an incredible amount of things by interacting online with those who know more about those things than I do, and more importantly by answering the questions of those who know less than I do (or less than I <b>appeared</b> to know at the time).</p><p><br /></p><p>Dirty secret: <i>nobody learns more than the teacher</i>. The process of going out and finding the information required to offer a coherent response to someone else&#039;s question is <b>enormously</b> rewarding on a personal level. It&#039;s shown me a number of new numismatic subspecialties I now really enjoy, and didn&#039;t know about until someone else forced me to look at it by asking a question.</p><p><br /></p><p>My greatest success? I can&#039;t be happy with the guy in the mirror unless I&#039;m learning and teaching, and I can do <b>both</b> here and at other places like this. It&#039;s far more satisfying than any single coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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