I give up

I've been through thousands and thousands of pennies( one cent pieces) trying to find that first error coin and never find nothing every time I think I got something it gets shot down. can't even find a wide AM penny don't think they exist in missouri

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

It takes patience, education, and a little bit of luck to find errors and varieties. It was actually a few months of searching before I found my first DDO, then all of a sudden after I found it, I started finding them more frequently. Don't give up , and if you ever get tired of looking at them, focus on something different for a while.

 

I'd like to get education on that kind of stuff but don't know where to start and nowhere around here offers anything

 

I kinda give up too. I feel like roll searching has hurt my eyesight, even with a loupe.

 

Read ALL of doubleddie.com, specifically "how dies are made" and "doubled dies".

Bookmark the following sites:

error-ref.com
errorvariety.com
lincolncentresource.com
coppercoins.com

Purchase reading material: The Cherrypicker's guide to Die Varieties, strike it rich with pocket change, etc.

I was pretty much self-taught. If you do the proper research and reading yourself, you really don't need anyone to "offer" anything.

 

Ok thanks it very much appreciated

 

Thing Is there are a lot of people knowing their's a big profit margin in searching pennies so much are already searched through. Its not like we're the first to do so

 

The coolest thing I found is a 1982 penny missing the VDB on it and it's not even worth anything

 

The Authoritative Reference On Lincoln Cents by Wexler and Flynn is my go-to guide:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Authoritative-Reference-Lincoln-Cents/dp/B0032CLWQE

 

You'll find one some day. It takes a lot of patience as well as the skills to look for them.

 

you might also look into purchasing a USB zoom microscope, some can be had quite cheap, lookin thru a loop was killin my already deteriorating eyesight, now i hold the coin under my microscope an look at coin on my computer screen, lot easier on my eyes when i look at date an letters on a coin that are almost 2 inches tall, an i have my loupes for closer inspection whenever i spot something, i can also snap close up pics with the microscope...

 

It's just like with girls/women and lottery tickets. When you don't try or expect anything, that's when you get that little something something. Stop trying so hard. It'll come if it is meant to be. I have been on a streak of finding about 5 significant coin errors since June 2013. Doubled dies x 2, split planchet x 1, large circular die crack x 1 and regular die crack x 1. The best part is, that I wasn't looking for them.

 

It's more fun to search eBay for errors that sellers missed. (and better on the eyes, too).

 

Wide AM's or close AM varieties don't exist in Kentucky either - at least I have not found one. Out of all my searching I have one Lincoln extra finger and about 6 to 8 Arizona extra cactus coins. I have been searching a long time for varieties in my change without much luck. I think using things like the cherry pickers guide is more fun and then cherry picking off ebay or other auction sites. I just missed a 1858/7 on heritage a month ago. And yes I used to search ebay nightly for certain varieties with no luck, but still it is fun. I still search once or twice a week. So I would not give up, but I would not focus on it only.