Collecting Small Cent Varieties

I roll search U.S. cents for errors and varieties. What I recommend is that you first learn what a "normal" coin should look like for any given year and MM, they don't change them very often. Then when you come across a coin that doesn't just look right you will notice it right off and then you can take a closer look at what you might have. That's what I do. I hope this makes sense to you. Good luck with your hunting.
John1

When looking at the CoinsandCanada web site...the link to the pictures that they have in the listing for the year you have chosen are more or less very minor and usually not as collected varieties/errors. A lot of what the pictures show are die cracks, Machine Doubling, minor die clashes and so forth. If you want to look for the variety/errors shown on the additional pictures...please do.

I guess what you really need to do is to figure out exactly what you want to collect. This will help you to determine how in depth you will need to look at each individual coin to realize the maximum returns in what you want to collect. Every collector has to make this determination for themselves. When I started...I was collecting everything that I found interesting to me. I quickly learned that collecting everything I found interesting was very time consuming and getting a bit out of hand. Over the years I have learned refine my collecting to certain areas of varieties and errors. I recommend you do some reading on different websites to learn what you can about what you will be collecting. There are so many different minor errors around that carry little to no premium for a coin. Asking questions on a coin of interest to you is also a great way to learn. Just make sure you have a decent picture to post with your questions and ask your questions in a clear and straight forward manner. With those two things included in your posts you will usually receive great advice and opinions from several members here that will hopefully answer your questions. Like the saying goes..."A picture is worth 1000 words.", but we still need the words in the form of a question to give you an educated answer.

I recommend you also do as much reading on here and you will soon find that many of your questions have already been answered. In the top left corner of the web page is a box called "Search Coin Community"...using this will often help you find an answer that may have already been discussed here before.

A few great websites to read are:
http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-prices.php - Most likely the most important Canada Coin Reference site you will use.
http://coppercoins.com/advsearch.php - US Penny (cent) variety/error web site. A must use if you want to collect US Cents. Just enter your date in the "From:" field and choose your mint and take a look.
http://www.eurocoins.co.uk/ - Identify the Euro coins you may find on your CRH journey
http://canadiancounterfeits.numisso...?/category/2 - A good source to help you identify Canadian Counterfeit coins.
http://varietynickels.com/pages/jef...n-nickel.php - Good Jefferson nickel reference site
http://www.lincolncentresource.com/wideams.html - Excellent resource site for Lincoln Cents...Be sure to read how to Identify the 1998, 99 & 2000 Wide AM and the 1992 Close AM Lincoln Cents.
http://koinpro.tripod.com/Articles/...BeadsVar.htm - How to Identify the Rare 1965 Canadian Nickel bead varieties by Ken Potter
http://www.doubleddie.com/203990.html - A must use for US coin errors and varieties
http://www.errorvariety.com/ - error and varieties

There are other sites that are useful and I'm sure others may chime in with any I might have omitted.

I hope this info helps and be sure to ask questions when needed.

Hello

Here is on Numicanada a new book WEB for ERRORS since five day now.

The errors are class "Minor or Majors.

Just look at, but it is in french.

Good read.

http://www.numicanada.com/livre.php

There is no easy answer to your question. My penny book goes from 1937 to date and has over 700 pennies for that 75 year period without a duplicate - l have 46 different 1964s for example. So really collect what you want to and dont let yourself feel too overwhelmed, just have fun