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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2866340, member: 24314&quot;]paddyman98, posted: &quot;Here is a CoinTalk thread I created over 2 years ago.. you will like the interesting comments!</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1981-book-on-variety-and-oddity-us-coins-my-first-source.261195/#post-2108676&quot;" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1981-book-on-variety-and-oddity-us-coins-my-first-source.261195/#post-2108676&quot;">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1981-book-on-variety-and-oddity-us-coins-my-first-source.261195/#post-2108676&quot;</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for this link.&nbsp; While I respect [USER=1859]@mikediamond[/USER], recommend and use his website, and applaud his contribution to numismatics - Unfortunately, this&nbsp; little &quot;Johnny-come-lately&quot; who probably was not even born until the late 60&#039;s reminds me of the brash way I was at one time. Same with all the Breen haters.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has been several years since his post in the link above and hopefully his opinion has mellowed.&nbsp; I have come to realize that we all should respect those that came before us - the numismatic pioneers - and learn from them while recognizing their mistakes.&nbsp; While I&#039;m no Mike Diamond or well-known expert, I&#039;ve made plenty of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I&#039;ll guarantee 100%.&nbsp; In the future, after Mike is gone, there WILL BE revisions to his writings.&nbsp; Respectful numismatists will not hold that against him.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I hope someone will alert him to this post. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I think I did. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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