New Member From Sacramento, Cali.

Hi all!
I'm from Sacramento, Cali. Born and lived in the central valley all my life from Manteca to Merced to Modesto and now Sacramento.

I delved into coins a bit when I was taking care of my dad following his massive stroke that left him unable to speak and in a wheelchair. He was a big collector of stamps and sports memorabilia and he dabbled a little in coins. I started to look into it then, but never really got into it enough to know and understand much about doubled dies and error coins and what's possibly valuable or not, such as Machine Doubling or Strike Doubling.

I recently ran into major car repair issues, have a limited income and have already dumped a lot into my SUV but something drew me to look at my coins. Then I started seeing video titles "coins you can retire on...heheh, so I thought maybe I could find a few amongst those I have to help pair my car repairs that I need and I think I'm getting hooked along the way.

I always save change in a jar and quarters to try for toys for my grandkids in those claw machines. Well, this time, I began watching videos and was referred to a site for doubled die info and I thought I had a few potential double dies but after looking at the ones listed on a coin webdsite mostly for doubled dies, I realized I can't even begin to see what they are describing even on the images they post.

I was using magnification, but just got a digital microscope and oh boy does it show a lot! Amazing stuff! So the more I look, the more I want to know and learn.

There's a coin show later tis month in my area and I'm planning to go. I want to collect some sets for my grandchildren maybe and myself. I have a couple of coins that are certainly interesting if nothing else so I began to look into finding folks to chat with and see what I can learn from them or even share about what I've learned.

Looking forward to co~in mingling with ya'll!