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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldCoinLover, post: 693553, member: 4336&quot;]I love how the term &#039;expert&#039; is thrown around so loosely.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a show I watch called &#039;pawn stars&#039; which deals with this supposedly real pawn shop in las vegas, who have everything from cufflinks to an airplane for sale. I mean come on, can they capitalize it any more?</p><p><br /></p><p>What I find funny is when the owners of the shop don&#039;t know the value or if an item is real in antiques, and the owners of the store happen to have an &#039;expert&#039; in every field imaginable come and appraise the item, as well as determine if it is real. There is an expert friends they have from everything from military items, to maps, to revolutionary war items. And although they sound knowledgeable, I doubt they are &#039;experts&#039;. I mean come on how many pawn shops really have an expert in every field of a subject?</p><p><br /></p><p>They come in nicely dressed, and say &quot;I&#039;m an expert in revolutionary items.&quot; Funny. Reminds me of &quot;expert village&quot; which are these guys who call them selves &#039;expert magicians&#039; (I do magic too) on youtube and their skills are laughable at best. They are not experts, they aren&#039;t even intermediate, I think the term is thrown around way too losely, and not just with numismatic, but with sleight of hand skills (magic), and other fields.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people I would consider True experts are:</p><p>Doug here, Mark Feld, Conder101, David.Q.Bowers, and Doug Winter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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