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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SPP Ottawa, post: 1902548, member: 39508&quot;]Since your post followed mine, let me share what I am thinking.</p><p><br /></p><p>I applaud your enthusiasm, but why not do this incrementally using baby steps. Join a local coin club and offer seminars and give presentations (coin clubs love this, and are always receptive). If you like that, then step it up a bit, and become a regular contributor or even a columnist to your coin club&#039;s newsletter (editors are always lamenting the lack of good material being submitted). Try submitting some articles to newsletters of larger organizations - peer review is humbling, but it provides a great perspective. Get more involved with the ANA or other larger coin communities and offer to help update their existing courses - I bet there are a ton of older correspondence courses that already exist, that would need someone to convert it into an online, interactive course. You kind of see the steps I am building up to here...</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the pragmatic side of me: Anything more than a few months, is a serious commitment, but 2-8 years?? In 8 years one could go from a new collector to defending their PhD thesis in history or economics, specializing in numismatic disciplines, while collecting a Masters degree along the way (and yes, such programs exist); and that might only be on one single aspect of numismatics!! In those 8 years, one learns _how_ to do research, properly. Part of learning how to do research, does not make you an expert, it merely opens your eyes as to how much there is still to learn....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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