Searching For Errors.

I started to collect errors and varieties by accident while building a Mercury dimes set, just happen to ran into a 1941 large S variety. I read further into different MM used in various years, pick up a CherryPickers Guide and the rest is history. I would recommend if collectors have the fund to purchase the Walter Breen book. Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins.

I have a site they won't let you link here and I keep it on my computer screen as a quick reference. That and Lincoln Resource. After awhile you get where you don't really need them.

Thanks for all the help, please keep it coming if anyone else has anything. I hope this is usefull to others getting started as well. I will start looking into some of this particular trying to find some basic pennies to memorize so I can see weirdness in them.

@John1

I think my eye loupe is 10x but I had a hard time focusing it because the portion of the loupe that focused at the actual magnification was tiny. Do you have a particular brand/make that you would recommend? (or anyone else). I have glasses if that makes a difference. I've always taken them off so I could leave the loupe in my eye and use both hands.

I just dont konw if all loupes are the same or if I just got a really cheezy one and a 'professional' one might have a much wider focus window or something.

@52Raymo

For the online references. Why cant one be linked here? Is it like a competitor or something? Is it against policy to send it to me through private message? (I dont even wanna be rude let alone violate a policy, just asking.)

@macmercury

I wish that were true for me. Sadly one of my minor annoying disabilities makes it extreme hard to parse paper texts. I can kinda fake online texts especially if they are broken up into topical chunks like webpages and wiki's and the like. But even then a wiki page thats too long causes my brain to fold in on itself and I start to implode. . The Strike It Rich I was able to paruse well enough and stop and start entries I got the general gist and I'll go back to randomly to try to pick up more but I am much better off with digital media.

Thanks everyone!

Alright thanks. Ill consider them. I have to watch though I am throwing a lot of money into toys for this hobby lol. Cameras, lamps, microscopes. Not to mention air tites, 2x2s, boxes, binders, binder pages, hehehe... I am having a BLAST even as far as I have gotten and can see my self LOVIN IT! (like a McDonald commercial) for the rest of my life but it does add up lol.