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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 693197, member: 4703&quot;]One word - <font size="4"><span style="color: red">Education.</span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why, using your definitions, I would be deemed (incomplete list) <ul> <li><span style="color: blue">&quot;Novice&quot;</span> regarding<ul> <li>exonumia</li> <li>bullion</li> <li>errors</li> <li>NCLT</li> <li>most paper money</li> <li>ancients</li> <li>European, British Commonwealth, African, and Central/South American coins</li> <li>post-WWII Chinese and Korean issues</li> </ul></li> <li><span style="color: blue">&quot;Beginner&quot;</span> regarding&nbsp;<ul> <li>US coins</li> <li>most Asian coins, including pre-modern Chinese, Japanese and Korean</li> </ul></li> <li><span style="color: blue">&quot;Intermediate&quot;</span> regarding<ul> <li>early Chinese Republic</li> <li>Japanese occupation coins and currency</li> <li>Japanese paper money</li> </ul></li> <li><span style="color: blue">Advanced&quot;</span> regarding modern struck Japanese coins; and</li> <li><span style="color: blue">&quot;Expert&quot;</span> <span style="color: SeaGreen">in my dreams</span>.</li> </ul><p></p><p>IMHO there are few, if any who could qualify as &quot;experts&quot; across the board, and a relatively small percentage of collectors are &quot;advanced&quot; in multiple areas.&nbsp; I&#039;ve <i>never</i> met a collector who would rank higher than &quot;beginner&quot; in <i>every</i> area of the hobby (with the possible exception of GDJMSP - the most <b>educated</b> numismatist I have ever run across!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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