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#1 Unread post by rwdomski82 »

Hey Everyone, just joined the other day. I came across my uncles collection of coins who passed away years ago. I always knew he was a serious collector but found 3 boxes full of tubes of old silver quarters and dimes which he saved just for the silver value I assume but also tons of buffalo head nickles, a lot of single coins he put in individual cases, Indian head pennies, just tons and tons of coins.

My mom always told a story when she was growing up living with her mom and uncle, one day she heard him screaming from his bedroom because he had found a double die penny that he knew was rare. I have to find out which one it is because that one and a few others are still in safety deposit boxes.

I’ve been looking some up and came across this site. Has me going through boxes of my old pennies now haha. Didn’t realize it was so exciting haha. I think I need to get a magnifying glass, any suggestions on where to go to get one?

Anyways, I live in Hartford, CT, just turned 40 and sure I’ll be posting or at least going through old posts as I have tons of questions.

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#2 Unread post by SensibleSal66 »

Hey Rob! I'm also from CT. and you seem to very be interested in coins now, but you need to learn a lot still. I buy a lot of my stuff (supplies)from Amazon.com. You'll need a Good Loupe like this and a Redbook for Info. and Values. and a lot of help from Us, The Community. Sal :)
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Welcome!

1. Please make sure to review the forum guidelines before posting any questions about specific coins. That way you will know the minimum info we need in order to help you find an answer.

Click here, READ the guidelines list and please watch the video!


2. Also, you can email Daniel to get the Red Book and loupe to take the guesswork out of which loupe to buy.

3. Don't go the typical route newbies do and think you need a microscope to find errors. At first newbies see regular anomalies in high magnification and start thinking they have rare and valuable errors. They post them here and are disappointed over and over.

Save Yourself time, effort, and disappointment...don’t learn the coin hobby backwards.
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Looking for random anomalies on coins and hoping they match up to something collectable will take you a lot more time, wasted effort, and disappointment repeatedly finding out you have nothing but post mint damage or useless machine doubling, die deterioration, etc.

Spend some initial time at places like error-ref.com, doubleddie.com, varietyvista.com, conecaonline.org, coppercoins.com etc. to find what actual and collectable coin errors look like.

A good way to start is, for instance, separate a bunch of pennies by date. Go to varietyvista.com and, date by date, use the reference there to see what errors are known for that specific coin/mint mark. Look for those specific errors/varieties using the pictures provided. After doing this for awhile you will KNOW what an actual error looks like and not have to waste time on face value and damaged coins. :)
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