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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2867014, member: 24314&quot;]V. Kurt Bellman, posted: &quot;I am INSTANTLY suspicious of any field in which people are writing books with definitive statements <b>during the relative infancy of the understanding of the subject matter...&quot; </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>&quot;...However, I do recognize that numismatic authors IN PARTICULAR tend to not be so deterred. A lot of &quot;crap&quot; gets into coin books, and more joins it yearly.&quot;</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> IMO, this is gibberish as it is a narrow view of the subject.&nbsp; Who is going to determine the actual dates of the &quot;<span style="color: #b300b3">relative infancy of the subject matter</span>?&nbsp; Not any of us. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> We were not around.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am a student of counterfeit detection. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I&#039;ve been learning about this subject for decades. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie104" alt=":yawn:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Therefore, I can say with 100% accuracy that much of the info being touted as truth when I became interested in coins in the late 1960&#039;s was pure uninformed nonsense. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><span style="color: #00b300"> However, I did not know this at the time. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </span></p><p><br /></p><p>The ONLY book around on counterfeit detection written by an Internationally known authenticator was full errors!&nbsp; The Organization of International Numismatists counterfeit collection that was part of the first authentication class I attended was full of GENUINE COINS labeled as COUNTERFEITS and ALTERATIONS!&nbsp; Nevertheless, these early authenticators and their books and columns <b>CANNOT BE JUDGED BY WHAT WE KNOW TO BE TRUE TODAY. </b> They did the best they could while using all the knowledge they could muster at that time.&nbsp; They were the foundation during my introduction to authentication.&nbsp; YN&#039;s of today will use the works of others, alive now, to learn the subject. The books they use will have fewer errors. That is why I dislike the &quot;new&quot; folks and anyone else who disparages the folks who tried to enlighten us decades ago before their time. </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=71723]@V. Kurt Bellman[/USER] continued:&nbsp; &quot;I offer as one example all the UTTERLY FALSE garbage that went dressed as fact regarding the 2014 ANA show with the gold Kennedy release. Anyone who got their &quot;information&quot; (yeah, as if...) from reading CoinTalk is/was hopelessly uninformed, misinformed, and [misinformed] disinformed.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the information regarding these coins.&nbsp; Unfortunately, IMO, it has no bearing on this discussion at all.&nbsp; I believe we are discussing errors of a technical nature published in books rather than opinions, misunderstandings, press releases, and chat boards. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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