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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 208707, member: 4626&quot;]To be fair, <i>you</i> brought it back up after I was willing to let it go.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Because not all information is of equal value.&nbsp; Where the information comes from matters!&nbsp; Why do I even have to argue that?!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, yes!&nbsp; I don&#039;t need that specific of credentials (though it would explain how he knows what he does lol... maybe he doesn&#039;t want people to know that he faked his death in 1925 and that&#039;s why he&#039;s being so secretive?).&nbsp; But if he ever said something like &quot;I work at the Mint&quot; or &quot;I know someone who works at the Mint&quot; it would allow me to place more faith in him as a known relaible source.&nbsp; If he&#039;s so worried about his privacy, even something like &quot;the information comes from the Mint&quot; without saying how he got it would even be good enough.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first time I ever questioned his source, and the only reason I did is because it contradicts what I&#039;ve heard from another source that I beleived to be reliable.&nbsp; If two sources contradict each other, the only way I can figure out which is right is to judge which source is more likely to be reliable, and to do that I need to know where each source gets their information, at least in general terms.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>/sigh... and I was worried that&nbsp; <i>I</i> was the one overreacting... it&#039;s not like I asked for his name, address, phone number, social security number, and shoe size.&nbsp; Just a brief mention of the information source would have been fine, it&#039;s not like it&#039;s a secret that violates national security or something to reveal how he knows when certain coins will be released and how they will be packaged.&nbsp; I&#039;m willing to accept his track record and beleive anything he says as having a nearly 100% chance of being right, but if somebody I talk to asks me about Mint information and asks how I know something, I certaintly can&#039;t tell them &quot;some guy on a message board whose name I don&#039;t know has information from I don&#039;t know where that I&#039;m relying on.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever... if he doesn&#039;t want to reveal how he knows what he knows, that&#039;s his privilege and right... however not knowing where he gets his info, I&#039;m just not willing to call his word the unquestioned gospel truth, no matter how good his track record.&nbsp; Maybe that&#039;s just me.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way I get my coin information from books and websites, and from talking to coin dealers and coin collectors, and ocassionally employees at the Denver Mint.&nbsp; That wasn&#039;t painful for me at all to reveal; I didn&#039;t have to say who I was, where I worked, or anything.&nbsp; Wasn&#039;t a big deal at all.&nbsp; Again, maybe that&#039;s just me...</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway ND86, if you want to keep your secret identity, go ahead lol... don&#039;t feel like I don&#039;t appreciate your information and advice or anything, and don&#039;t feel insulted if I don&#039;t accept everything you say as the final word.&nbsp; I can just let it go it at that if everyone else is willing to.&nbsp; And if you really are Geroge Morgan, don&#039;t worry, your secret&#039;s safe with me!&nbsp; Love your silver dollar design![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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