Just Because You Saw It On Ebay...

A large percentage of what I know about errors is due to the postings of Mr. Daughtrey, both on this site and his own. It has caused me to go back through coins put aside at an earlier time and free many of them from their 2x2's and back into circulation. His postings have also helped me to find real errors that I would have not even known to look for otherwise, and for this I thank him.
Ziggy

I appreciate the messages of support, and know that the majority would agree. It's the minority of hard-headed people who don't learn, don't want to learn, and think they are the lucky ones to find a valuable error in every pocketful of change who are the ones I direct these statements toward. Either the lucky ones or they know they aren't finding anything of value and are just picking out the most messed up coin they can find and calling it an error, whether it is or not. Some people tend to skip the part about WHY valuable errors are valuable...it's because they are rare and very seldom show up anywhere. People can look through hundreds of thousands of coins before finding a single valuable error. The minor little marks and dings you find in every pocketful of change aren't valuable and probably aren't even errors either. There are a certain amount of cracks, smudges, and other imperfections that are tolerable in any high speed process involving mostly machines...including coin making. Valuable errors don't take a 15X microscope to see. Sooner people figure all this out the better off they are.

Welcome to the forum Bill. Your knowledge will add good value here.