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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2782930, member: 76086&quot;]I dont disparage anyone wishing to learn about the coins or about how to attribute, research, etc.&nbsp; I have always promoted learning and (I know, I am a broken record here) to buy books.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Not everything can be learned free from a website (assuming that website is even correct!).&nbsp; But the underlying concept in all of these uncleaned coin threads seems to be that one will find monetarily valuable treasures hidden amongst the junk. 99.9% will not.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, there are those rare instances where one does find good stuff.&nbsp; Back in the days of The Celator (horrors, a print magazine!!!!) one reader related a tale of finding a Roman gold Aureus in a junk box (for a few dollars or cents, I dont recall specifically).&nbsp; Its the only instance I know of such a thing happening and while anything can occur, little ever does.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the early days of Ebay scammers would show a picture of a giant pile of junk uncleaned with a single small gold coin on top, often with some such heading as &#039;gold found!&#039;.&nbsp; Back then they used Indian fannams (real, and genuinely gold, but only 100 years or so old and completely unassociated with what they were selling. Worth about $10-15 at the time, so a good teaser for buying coins at $1 each. Beware, most fannams on the market now are fake).</p><p><br /></p><p>Am I being hypocritical?&nbsp; Quite possibly.&nbsp; In my beginning days as a collector I bought one such junk lot (the remaining coin illustrated above).&nbsp; Did those coins have value?&nbsp; Yes, they taught me never to buy that kind of material again.&nbsp; Also, in the early 1990&#039;s I did sell that kind of material once upon a time, but later felt bad about it and ceased selling them.&nbsp; Who knows, maybe people found lots of gold in my lots!?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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