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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Your last pic of UNITED is interesting but still pretty hard to make out-try some different lighting angles for better pics...either way don't quit yet! Lol it can be frustrating I know and it does take a lot of time but your efforts will pay off it just may take some time to find that first one
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Pillar of the Community
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What is it we are looking for, doubling , Wide AM or what? |
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Forum Dad
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My thoughts exactly Mike, words are your friend.
When you make people guess at what your looking at, they tend to just move on and not reply.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I really have no idea of what to look for. Images seem to show some sort of doubling but they might just be reflections. I suspect Strike Doubling (also know as Machine Doubling and Mechanical Doubling) on the first S of STATES. I can't make out anything else for sure. |
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United States
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I see a bunch of clearly-imaged polishing lines but beyond that I've no idea what I'm looking for.
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Pillar of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The devices are reduced in size because of die over polishing that removed part of the fields. Note in the first two images the devices thinner than normal. But that is all I can see going on with your coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oletsdewit, Whatever you do, don't quit! This all all come together for you at some point.  Really, it will. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The ratio is pretty slim for normal coins versus doubled dies from circulation. Maybe one in 50,000 coins will be a great doubled die. Finding minor varieties is a lot easier. (the bar DDR Memorial cents) But the key is knowing what to look for. If you are expecting each coin to contain a strong variety and keep looking for something that isn't there, then you are spinning your wheels. Just move on to the next coin because if there is a variety on the coin, it will leap out at you when you learn what the normal design looks like. Try different venues. Try searching OBW rolls of cents. These have not already been picked through by other roll searchers. Try looking at a certain years and not at circulation for a time. When you become familiar that that era (usually 3 years of coins, other times decades of coins) then you will easily spot a variety quicker. The coin collecting field is wide open for different things. But try to focus on one thing for a time. Search coppercoins/variety vista/Wexler's die varieties/Cherry picker guide/Red book and other sources when you are looking at a coin you can't figure out. But keep in mind you coin family here that will assist you and give you support. Remeber also the search feature on this site. You can type in a date/denomination/mint mark and find information that is already recorded. But just keep looking. You will find something. |
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United States
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that's the best advice yet coop. Ole good luck stay in the game, I just started about 7 weeks ago and if you spend most of your day doing it you will find one. just keep posting coins that you think is an error if you don't want to study the books then you will learn what to look for.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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All good advice and I don't mean to discourage you in anyway actually trying to encourage when I tell you it took me 2 years till I found my first double die! That was the rough part-the good news is I found 5 or 6 good ones in about a 3 month period at that point-the best part is during that 2 years of searching hard and asking questions I wound up memorizing so many years and specific double dies that things got much faster and easier and along the way I learned about a ton of new errors and varieties so none of that time was a waste-I found a ton of other errors during that period,got my coins listed on 2 different sites and also have an article about 2 of my recent finds coming out in next months coin world-keep at it! Good luck!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oh and I still have a ton to learn but I'm trying to soak it all up...
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