New Lens I Made For A Phone Have To See This No Joke!

Question: Are you using a zoom on your images? The distortion is not helping. Best not to use the zoom feature on your camera as it distorts more than helps.

If the area you are looking at is raised, you might check to see if it is a plating bubble if this is a Zincoln? If it is a copper coin, then it maybe just a small die gouge. With too much magnification even a piece of sand can look huge. The best guide for how much magnification is 10X. The reason? Most collectors of varieties may not be interested in a coin that can't show on magnification above that range. I can see minor hub doubling with a microscope that even the camera can't get an image of. So the strong the variety is, the more desirable it will be. If something doesn't follow a part of the design, it is not hub doubling. Die damage can make this happen, but then again it would be too minor to be a collectable. A die variety should stand out, in fact leap out at you when you find one. If you have to search this hard, you are spinning your wheels. But being that you can spot something that small tells me your eye is there, but it is not the right coin. A high percentage of coins are not a variety, they are just a normal coin. I bought a bottle containing coins that someone collected over the years. There were 9,000 coins in that bottle. The person who saved the coin, or his son who is not a variety searcher was curious what I found. There were many BU coins from different years because this probably took 10-20 years to build up. I saved the best ones. But inside that bottle I found a 2004 DDR. (just one) and it was about a $65 coin. So I found one good variety in the lot that brought me a premium. So searching coins is profitable, but takes time and if the variety is not there, is where the search should end. You might find it beneficial to study coppercoins.com to see what a variety could look like. On a doubled die there are several ways if could show itself on a coin. Knowing what to look for would be beneficial as it helps you to know what you are looking for. So now that you have the eye, you need to know now what to look for. I think that will help you a lot. Coppercoins is so far not a subscription, so look at it year after year,mint mark by mint mark. You don't have to remember each item, but remember how the doubled dies look. Then when you've got that down, then you will be ready for variety searching.
Hope this helps.

The 7th post should be in the Guiness Book of World Records for the longest ramble without a period or comma.

Oh, and I see a blurry copper atom.

I tried reading it twice. I had to lay down because now the room is spinning, and it gave me a migraine.

I am going to stay away from this coin. Teachmind111, Coop gave you some excellent advice. Take it and you'll enjoy this hobby even more. I look forward to progressing right along with you.

Here's what I think...

Oh man...

Teachmind111:

Google "us coin errors" and find pages similar to this one:
http://www.coinnews.net/tools/error...escriptions/

These will show you what to look out for and some will give examples of PMD which are not errors.

Also, looking into a very small defects in coins such as lincoln sitting at the memorial is often a waste of time UNLESS you suspect a double die. Most mint errors worth keeping are ones noticeable to unaided eye.

Please be aware of large raised areas of metal and avoid most indented areas UNLESS it appears something was struck into the coin such as a staple. When you have a coin in question think about the process a coin is made. (You mentioned your son watching coop's videos on errors, but have you yourself watched them? I recommend it.) Think of what step in the coin making process your "error" might have occurred. Also think about how easy it would be for someone to use a tool to damage the coin in any way to replicate the coin in question.

One more tip I have about PMD is, most post mint damaged coins such as road coins can be noted by the edge of the coin. The edge of a road coin is often dinged just like the face which can not happen at the mint since the die does not stamp the edge of coins.

Enough.