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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Speedy, post: 188735, member: 705&quot;]I agree Mark---hands on is the best learning tool!...like I said above in my post, I think reading and learning from books would help a good deal, there is nothing that can come close to hands on learning. I&#039;ve bought fake coins...sometimes I knew that they were fake and other times I had no idea....once I was given a 1931-S Cent that was fake---it fooled me, the 3 was weak and I marked it up as a weak strike, later on down the road I showed it to a dealer and he said that he thought it was fake and sure enough it was.</p><p>Last year I set up at a show and one older man came in that had collected for years---(he is the type we are talking about) he has neat coins, and while he has collected for years he never laid hold on common info....he carrys a box of coins with him to coin shows to show off...and a good many of the coins were fake--he wasn&#039;t asking our thoughts so none of the dealers there really knew what to say about it so they just didn&#039;t say anything---he showed me one set and I said something like, &quot;in this one real&quot; (it was a 1914-D Cent that was a blatant fake) and he said &quot;of course&quot;. If he had taking the time to read some he would have seen that the coin was a bad fake---I&#039;ve seen fakes that are good and hardly detectable but this one wasn&#039;t good at all---</p><p>While he has had the hands on learning---he missed a major part that he needed badly.</p><p>Since then he came into a shop while I was there with some other coins asking the dealers thoughts---I also viewed the coins and they were fake...but he just smiled and said...oh...they are silver anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speedy</p><p><br /></p><p>Speedy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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