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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2411959, member: 112"]Bman - </p><p><br /></p><p>There is much to learn, more than you can even begin to comprehend, but everybody's gotta start someplace. As suggested, buying books is far and away the best advice, here's some to get you you started - </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Rare-Coins-Pleasure-Profit/dp/079483406X/ref=pd_sim_14_2/182-6939952-3953151?ie=UTF8&dpID=517NPIe12ML&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Rare-Coins-Pleasure-Profit/dp/079483406X/ref=pd_sim_14_2/182-6939952-3953151?ie=UTF8&dpID=517NPIe12ML&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Rare-Coins-Pleasure-Profit/dp/079483406X/ref=pd_sim_14_2/182-6939952-3953151?ie=UTF8&dpID=517NPIe12ML&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160,160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collectors-Survival-Manual-Revised-Seventh/dp/0375723390/ref=pd_sim_14_3/182-6939952-3953151?ie=UTF8&dpID=51fWZW0DisL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR106%2C160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Collectors-Survival-Manual-Revised-Seventh/dp/0375723390/ref=pd_sim_14_3/182-6939952-3953151?ie=UTF8&dpID=51fWZW0DisL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR106%2C160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Collectors-Survival-Manual-Revised-Seventh/dp/0375723390/ref=pd_sim_14_3/182-6939952-3953151?ie=UTF8&dpID=51fWZW0DisL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR106,160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462280779&sr=1-2&keywords=The+Official+American+Numismatic+Association+Grading+Standards+for+United+States+Coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462280779&sr=1-2&keywords=The+Official+American+Numismatic+Association+Grading+Standards+for+United+States+Coins" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462280779&sr=1-2&keywords=The+Official+American+Numismatic+Association+Grading+Standards+for+United+States+Coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Morgan-Silver-Dollars-Official/dp/0794836852/ref=pd_sim_14_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=511eotAj%2BAL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR104%2C160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Morgan-Silver-Dollars-Official/dp/0794836852/ref=pd_sim_14_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=511eotAj%2BAL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR104%2C160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Morgan-Silver-Dollars-Official/dp/0794836852/ref=pd_sim_14_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=511eotAj+AL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR104,160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But there is a great deal of basic information that you need to know as well, and much of it is not easily found in books. It's not that it's not in the books, it's more that it's scattered about through a great number of them in small bits and pieces. So finding it can be tedious to say the least.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, you mentioned buying a coin that had been dipped. But did you know that a coin being dipped is not necessarily a bad thing ? In fact, it quite often is a good thing. And if a coin having been dipped is going to be a reason for you to not buy that coin, then you better ready not buy very many coins. I say that because 80% or more of all older coins have been dipped. And yes that includes those slabbed by NGC and PCGS, as well as all of the other TPGs. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, dipping can be a bad thing, when it is not done correctly. And there's more than one way for it not to be done correctly. Dip residue can be left on a coin making it spotted and ugly, coins be dipped just a second or two too long making them over-dipped and stripping away the luster. The dip may not be neutralized allowing some to remain on the coin resulting the luster being stripped in places and not in others. Or the coin may have just been a bad candidate for dipping, in other words it never should have been dipped to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there's the lingo of coin collecting. Words often have very specific meanings, definitions, in numismatics that are quite different from what you are used to them having. And it is all too common, even for coin collectors, to use these words incorrectly and assign them definitions that are completely inaccurate. So when you read something, or hear somebody say something, it may not mean what you think it means. It may not even mean what THEY think it means !</p><p><br /></p><p>And it is also important to realize even in coin books there is a lot of bad information mixed right in with the good information. Of course unless one already knows a great deal, there is no way to know if it is bad or not. </p><p><br /></p><p>So like I said there is much to learn. But to learn it, ya gotta start someplace. Every journey begins with a first step.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2411959, member: 112"]Bman - There is much to learn, more than you can even begin to comprehend, but everybody's gotta start someplace. As suggested, buying books is far and away the best advice, here's some to get you you started - [url]http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Rare-Coins-Pleasure-Profit/dp/079483406X/ref=pd_sim_14_2/182-6939952-3953151?ie=UTF8&dpID=517NPIe12ML&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF[/url] [url]http://www.amazon.com/Collectors-Survival-Manual-Revised-Seventh/dp/0375723390/ref=pd_sim_14_3/182-6939952-3953151?ie=UTF8&dpID=51fWZW0DisL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR106%2C160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF[/url] [url]http://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462280779&sr=1-2&keywords=The+Official+American+Numismatic+Association+Grading+Standards+for+United+States+Coins[/url] [url]http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Morgan-Silver-Dollars-Official/dp/0794836852/ref=pd_sim_14_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=511eotAj%2BAL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR104%2C160_&refRID=0Z5M9VB6QAYC7PQ39HSF[/url] But there is a great deal of basic information that you need to know as well, and much of it is not easily found in books. It's not that it's not in the books, it's more that it's scattered about through a great number of them in small bits and pieces. So finding it can be tedious to say the least. For instance, you mentioned buying a coin that had been dipped. But did you know that a coin being dipped is not necessarily a bad thing ? In fact, it quite often is a good thing. And if a coin having been dipped is going to be a reason for you to not buy that coin, then you better ready not buy very many coins. I say that because 80% or more of all older coins have been dipped. And yes that includes those slabbed by NGC and PCGS, as well as all of the other TPGs. That said, dipping can be a bad thing, when it is not done correctly. And there's more than one way for it not to be done correctly. Dip residue can be left on a coin making it spotted and ugly, coins be dipped just a second or two too long making them over-dipped and stripping away the luster. The dip may not be neutralized allowing some to remain on the coin resulting the luster being stripped in places and not in others. Or the coin may have just been a bad candidate for dipping, in other words it never should have been dipped to begin with. Then there's the lingo of coin collecting. Words often have very specific meanings, definitions, in numismatics that are quite different from what you are used to them having. And it is all too common, even for coin collectors, to use these words incorrectly and assign them definitions that are completely inaccurate. So when you read something, or hear somebody say something, it may not mean what you think it means. It may not even mean what THEY think it means ! And it is also important to realize even in coin books there is a lot of bad information mixed right in with the good information. Of course unless one already knows a great deal, there is no way to know if it is bad or not. So like I said there is much to learn. But to learn it, ya gotta start someplace. Every journey begins with a first step.[/QUOTE]
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