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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cole Taylor, post: 2362205, member: 77556&quot;]It goes without saying that there are exceptions to every generalization but I can&#039;t help but to notice on this site and other sites that the people who have been in the field for a long time, several years or decades, carry themselves with almost an elitist fashion quick to dismiss any new members&#039; posts.&nbsp; Look around on this site, a lot of the older heads act sassy, argumentative, and condescending, which is cringeworthy at their age.&nbsp; They won&#039;t explain their conclusions.&nbsp; They just sputter out words like &quot;Fake&quot; or &quot;PMD&quot; or &quot;Artificial&quot; as if they can be definitive of a coin&#039;s status based just on photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been into numismatics for about six years.&nbsp; I&#039;m not seasoned but I am not a novice either and years ago on my old account, I posted photos on here of a Mercury Dime with rainbow toning and of a Steel Penny with a double clipped planchet and a bunch of older members were quick to reply with &quot;fake&quot; &quot;fake.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>I got them graded anyways and although they weren&#039;t worth as much as I&#039;d hoped, they were all real, certified.&nbsp; I sold them awhile ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>My question is:&nbsp; Is inaccuracy deliberate?&nbsp; Do the veterans feel as though the younger members have to pay some kind of dues.&nbsp; Like is this the older coin heads&#039; only time in life where they can feel powerful and exert some passive dominance albeit from behind their computer?.&nbsp; Are these the equivalent of bullies in the coin world or does his field just attract people who are miserable and socially inept?</p><p><br /></p><p>Not talking about the helpful peeps on here.&nbsp; There are some, the moderators are great especially but I don&#039;t think it&#039;s unfair to say that there are a lot of abrasive, crabby men on this site who could simply abstain from answering questions instead of acting horrid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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