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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 2366845, member: 15199&quot;]There are some grumps on the forum, but many more who want to help kindly.&nbsp; Their profile may say they are 68 and they are really 19, or that they are 14 and female and really 36 and males. Who knows? Until the internet ip encode your certified ID, we don&#039;t either. So any assumptions of age, sex, professional grader, 50 years a collector, etc. goes down the hill. Those that have written, commercially or as a hobby, on the area of numismatics should stand as &#039;knowledgeable&#039; , those like Lehigh and others who have, or have had prestigious and internet visible certified collections should stand, those that have written many interesting details about coins ( such as toning here and in other forums) should stand. Coin innovators such as BadThad with his chemical coin products should stand, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>In science and other fields it is called &quot;peer review.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p>Is it surprising that I have seen posts from relatively newcomers debating errors with Mike Diamond, or Jeffersons with Lehigh, or Corrosion with Badthad, or even Market history with people who have searchable records of trading coins of decades? What about the wonderful job the &quot;Ancient coin&quot; group is doing on answering many questions patiently even though often are answered with &quot;sorry fake&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dr. Seuss could summarize most of thread as &quot;</p><p>&quot;until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew</p><p>whether this one was that one... or that one was this one...</p><p>or which one was what one... or what one was who.&quot;</p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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