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I Apologize In Advance For The Level Of Annoyance That My Numismatic Ignorance Will Soon Create

 
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 Posted 02/15/2023  3:38 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add usmc-tanker to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I'm Chris from Bridle Trails, WA. Although just across the lake from me the perhaps the biggest *** Edited by Staff - The bad word filter is in place for a reason. Bypassing the filter and making the intended word obvious anyway is completely unacceptable. *** metropolitan city in the US, where I live is pretty great. I was fortunate enough to get the very house I grew up in via a generous family discount from the parents. One of which may or may not have worked for a government agency which could have certainly put specific coins on his radar. So that is what brought me here. He amassed thousands of modern coins that we did nothing with other than maybe use them to teach my daughter math back when she was a kid but we always thought it was odd that they didn't seem to be just a random assortment of pocket change. Basically this whole thing started when someone was talking about a 1969 penny and my daughter recalled that we had dozens of them. We bought a few books and realized pretty quickly that most of the coins were dated to years that corresponded amazingly well to those of valuable error coins. So we think he probably knew what to look for but one thing he didn't have was a Nikon stereo zoom microscope that fortunately his son would later acquire years after his passing. I didn't know it would be used for another one of his treasure hunts of which he left many, but I'll take looking at coins over blood samples any day. We are now deep in the rabbit hole and I actually think we might have some stuff that no one has ever seen, or at least listed it in print, so it's been a really fun month for sure. I've spent many hours on this site in recent weeks to familiarize myself and my daughter's understanding but there is still much more we need to learn and being that I need eyeballs on some of the coins we have in order to draw from this community's infinite well of wisdom, I think now is the time to sign up and bug you all with stupid questions about what are more likely than not just ordinary pieces of metal. So thanks for being here. I'm going to dial in the camera try to figure out how to make pictures appear on a computer not located in a hospital. I hate computers so I think I'll probably need to get some beers first to ease the frustration but hopefully I'll have something soon.
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 Posted 02/15/2023  3:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
( I'm no pro, it's just my humble opinion )
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 Posted 02/15/2023  3:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looking forward to seeing some the more interesting items.

Seattle isn't that bad. I can think of several dozen 'metro' areas which aren't terribly distinguished/appealing. I acknowledge it's a personal thing. So with that, on to numismatics...
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 Posted 02/15/2023  3:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dsking to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Now that's what I call an introduction! We love stories of how people got started in collecting and yours was fun to read.

I'm sure you'll ask some "stupid" questions, as you call them but, ask away. We all had to learn sometime and have been guilty of some questions that us old timers would deem a bit lame. Somehow, I don't think that your questions will be in that category. Even us old timers ask them too!

Welcome to our wonderful world of coins, etc.!

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 Posted 02/15/2023  6:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NumismaticsFTW to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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 Posted 02/16/2023  1:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BStrauss3 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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 Posted 02/16/2023  8:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SaturnD51 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
usmc-tanker, don't worry I'm computer illiterate too. My son is the one that is a genius in computers. Followed by my late Mother's cousin who helped Grace Hopper create the computer language that he named COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language. Believe me I wasn't born with much but the gift to laugh. Bring on your questions and pictures and see if you can stump us.
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 Posted 02/17/2023  10:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Danjor to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

The only bad question is one that is not asked.
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 Posted 02/17/2023  10:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Parnelli917 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply


This is a great place for evaluating coins. Most of us use cell phones to snap pictures, so no worries about super high res, perfect photos. Post photos of the ones you think are special and tell us why. Be ready for honest answers/opinions because there is no point in sugar coating. I've learned so much from these folks, often from my own mistakes! Gotta own those mistakes before you can learn from them!
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