Auction catalog writing must be the second most boring job, after coin grading.

ER

Except for ultra rarities that might come up once in a while, what different angles can you spin on the same coins that keep coming up for sale again and again and again. I wonder if the catalog writers become jaded, "Ho hum, here it is again, let me pull up my write-up from last week."

mgoodm3

Probably could do it with a computer. Just need about 500 stock phrases to put together in some new randown smarmy way.

Trime

For me, could be an interesting job. You look at lots of nice ( and un-nice coins). Lots of the descriptions are plaguerized.

kranky

I get the impression that Pistareen truly enjoys it. In fact, I'd think anyone who does that would have to find enjoyment in it or else they wouldn't do it.

"This example is one of the roundest we have ever handled. Thoroughly uncontaminated by damage, it clearly has been in existence since the day it left the dies in San Francisco. Only examples with more luster, fewer contact marks, a stronger strike, and/or more eye appeal could possibly grade higher than this particular coin."

RYK

The OP has obviously never had a stack of 100 mammograms to read.

ER

<< <i>The OP has obviously never had a stack of 100 mammograms to read. >>


That's not a job. That's torture.

ER

with pay