Where Are You From? A Place To Introduce Yourself

Greetings one and all! I am a new member and appreciate the opportunity to be involved with you all who have developed a great knowledge and history of coins. One of my projects will entail the Lincoln Cent. I have 2-3 gallon jugs that I put away 30 or so years ago and I plan on going through them to see if there is anything worth talking about. Any suggestions from this group as to what to look for (special years, irregular die strikes, abnormalities) would be greatly appreciated. Also, there has been a lot of talk about counterfeit American Eagle Silver dollar coins popping up, mainly from China, which are surprisingly an almost exact replica of those produced by the U.S. Mint. How does one determine whether a Silver Eagle Dollar coin is counterfeit or not? While there is an established weight for the American Eagle coin, which may vary slightly + or -, is there a minimum weight where the probability of the coin being counterfeit is most likely? And, short of an analysis of the metal content, how do you determine the coin is really silver? I once heard of a story, not sure how true it is, concerning a 1917 U.S. quarter which was counterfeited by Russia. The U.S. Government decided not to take any action with the counterfeits. Why? Apparently there was more that 25cents worth of silver in the coin.

Hello,my name is scooter. I live in Washington State. I collect quarters and pennies. I have been collecting for about 7 years now and enjoy it very much. I look forward to exploring this app and getting to know it's members. Thank you for having me.

Hi Everyone...

I'm from Puerto Rico and I'm a newbie in this collector hobby. At least for now
my interest is in create a good collection, I found history pretty interesting and
my main target are coins & currency.

James here I'm from a small town Pana , Illinois I'm new to coin collecting and still have a lot to learn and hopefully this community is a little more hospitable and patient with me. All the groups I was talking to were just merciless and you always had two or three guys there that just got on there to debate and discourage new members from trying to educate themselves . Anyways thank you for having me and hope to make some new friends

Hi all I'm Bobbye from pennsylvania. After collecting coins and things with my father for the last fifty some years, I thought I knew it all well.I really need your help because I'm lost.I truly appreciate all of you.I love this forum and I'm hoping to learn a lot!

I am retired army. I started making two coins book. The first book is from 1900 to 1999. and started the sec book is from 2000 to 2024. During the time I was making the 1st book I bough a lot of coins through auctions, and mint set. I just give the set to my granddaughter last year. Now I have over 10,000 US circulated coins, Pennies, Nickels, Dime, Quarter, Half Dollars, Dollars. I have never sold a coin. I am Look at Quarter and finding a lot of ERROR. I am going to try and sale them. I will ask for help on what they are worth.
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I'm new here as well as collecting coins . I have been collecting rare coins for about 10 years now but have little experience and knowledge about what's what in the community. Hopefully you guys can help me out with that

Thank you