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Posted 11/21/2017 1:17 pm
I enjoy coin grading because it unleashes my inner Sherlock Holmes. You learn a whole bunch of stuff from books but then you have to apply it. Look for clues and come to a determination.
This thread contains several lifetimes of coin grading life experience and that is why I enjoy this community so much.
SuperDave is right that grading online coin offerings from pictures is an entirely different skill set from grading in person. But if you decide to buy with return privilege you get to verify in hand what you see in pictures.
Online shopping gives you access to millions of coins on offer. You can look at tens of thousands of coins a day if you choose to and I have.
The second aspect I really enjoy is the psychology of coin market participants including collectors, investors, flippers, dealers, auction operators, hustlers, coin doctors, researchers, criminals, con [wo]men, etc.
Parsing through all of these personalities and skating through the landmines is still enjoyable for me but I can see many of the battle weary tending to their wounds over the years.
It is an adventure that gives sometimes more and often times less than what you put in, especially if you have brick and mortar or other types of overhead.
The hobby is changing. It is not what it was when I started and many walk away disillusioned. I still love it and lets me hang out here which in my mind is the modern day virtual equivalent of hanging out at the coin shop - without the obligation to buy anything.
That reminds me that I have make a contribution to support this site.
This thread contains several lifetimes of coin grading life experience and that is why I enjoy this community so much.
SuperDave is right that grading online coin offerings from pictures is an entirely different skill set from grading in person. But if you decide to buy with return privilege you get to verify in hand what you see in pictures.
Online shopping gives you access to millions of coins on offer. You can look at tens of thousands of coins a day if you choose to and I have.
The second aspect I really enjoy is the psychology of coin market participants including collectors, investors, flippers, dealers, auction operators, hustlers, coin doctors, researchers, criminals, con [wo]men, etc.
Parsing through all of these personalities and skating through the landmines is still enjoyable for me but I can see many of the battle weary tending to their wounds over the years.
It is an adventure that gives sometimes more and often times less than what you put in, especially if you have brick and mortar or other types of overhead.
The hobby is changing. It is not what it was when I started and many walk away disillusioned. I still love it and lets me hang out here which in my mind is the modern day virtual equivalent of hanging out at the coin shop - without the obligation to buy anything.
That reminds me that I have make a contribution to support this site.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
