Actually, for a visual learner, YouTube is a very good way to learn about the minting process. You just need to stay away from the hucksters. There are several videos on the making of coins.
Imagine you're a paleontologist and you're on a paleontology forum and people started coming on bringing rocks and stones, and asking, "Is this a fossil? And if so, how much is it worth?" They don't study paleontology, they don't nothing. They saw on YouTube some fossils are worth money and they keep coming on, ad nauseam, because, well, as they like to justify it, they're excited at the prospects. How are you going to feel? Nauseated. There's the clarification. There's nothing older generations about numismatics, there's just numismatics. We put people on the right track with the links, then it's up to them. They don't want to make the effort to read and learn from the links, they're mooching. And we got no time for parasites. Or at least I'd like to think most of us don't. Oh, and get a Red Book. There's where you start, almost forgot that.
I’m not mooching I’ve been watching stuff and going through coins for three days straight now I don’t like when I wAnt to know something it bothers me… and I wouldn’t ask how much it’s worth these things are only worth what people are willing to pay… also I have a 7 yr old who comes up to me every 5 minutes and asks me if “I wanna know sumpin?” so ♀️Answer me this though would u wanna go to the doctor,with a real problem, the day he’s tired of seeing the same druggies coming in to get a “pain shot” so he assumes you’re the same and sends u on ur way?
If you don’t like what you doing you’re the only one in your life who can fix it. No reason to be negative about something that should be enjoyable