Double Headed Coins Revisited

Talk about a waste of keystrokes. Ok, you are correct. I'm an evil genius leading novices down the primrose path to financial ruin. Yeah, of course, we wouldn't want a newbie to start checking out their pocket change or stopping by a local coin shop. Encouraging someone to develop a curiosity about coins & currency...what was I thinking?

See ya in the funny pages.

Morgan's Dad - Numismatic Literary Guild - a club of numismatic professionals in publishing coin related information.

Phoneguy - Evidently you don't understand what it's like to go through years and years of fighting against misinformation to educate people so they WILL have an interest in coins. So they WON'T be taken by buying something to find out later that it's not what they thought they bought...and the worst part is that half of it was bought from so-called dealers who cared more about turning a quick buck on coins than getting an education in what they are selling.

And just to add, I type quickly and need the exercise anyway. Responding to posts here is never a waste of time for me as long as the subject is numismatics. Everyone stands to gain from every post that provides truth.

So what should we do? Just quit writing books and quit answering people's questions? That's an idea. Let's go back to the dark ages of coins like back in the 1960s when the average collector knew little to nothing about the mechanics of making coins and would believe just about anything some sappy dealer told them. Let's go back to the days when there was no instant help (like the internet) and people didn't communicate except through local coin clubs where knowledge based on fact was scarce at best. Yeah...with billions spent at coin shows every year on coins, that's all we need to further the hobby and get more people interested. Thousands and thousands of people spending billions without knowledge or available information and without the kind generosity of people who do have the information being there to correct them and assist them. Yeah...THAT would make a lot of people jump right in and spend their wad! It would be just as bad as the millions of yahoos wasting their money on beanie babies or tech stocks. NICE!!

You know...I answered here in all serious generosity and was trying to help. With each post you make it obvious that you have a narrow tunnel vision of this industry, and take the whole thing as a joke. Just remember that there are potentially thousands of people reading what you type here, and there are thousands more you could affect with every keystroke...one way or the other. Whether it be information or misinformation, your time and energy will affect others. I prefer to be on the positive side of that curve. I've seen enough people rooked by bad deals, cleaned coins, errors that aren't, altered and countefeit crap. I've seen them leave and never come back because they thought everyone in the business was a crook and there was nobody left to trust. This is a difficult hobby to learn for those who want to engage in it fully. And I can guarantee it's a more difficult hobby for every one of them when people they assume know something are all over the place about what should be simple facts. Errors versus varieties versus die varieties...grading coins...detecting counterfeits. It's all simple and straight forward, but it sure doesn't seem so when people are muddying the waters with semantics, guessing, laziness, and misinformation.

""muddying the waters with semantics, guessing, laziness, and misinformation.""

You are right of course, I admitted that. It must be tough to be a long suffering martyr for the sake of the hobby.

Please accept my heartfelt apologies. I won't muddy this thread with guesss, laziness or misinformation. I'm truly, deeply and totally sorry for posting anywhere on this site or the entire internet.

You win , you win. You are a scholar and I'm a plebian. I don't know a coin from a token, an apple from an orange, day from night.

I surrender completely and totally. You win, you are the victor.

HEY, how about them Yankees?

Did A-rod have a good game?

Phoneguy please do not get discouraged from posting on the forum... As Wheezy said there is a lot of knowledge on this board, and a lot of knowledgeable people.. I honestly think you took what charles "coppercoins" said the wrong way.. He was trying to help you not belittle what you were saying... A lot of people in the world of coin collecting have been burned by false information... I posted not in defense of Coppercoins but in hoping that this little mishap will not discourage you from posting or being a part of this community... We appreciate every members input and hope to see you in other topics