I obviously can't and won't speak for everyone, but I didn't even know about errors until my change started to overflow. Was bored one day and started to just search dates to see if anything was of value. Errors/varieties I stumbled into when searching. Maybe it was due to the influx that you mention, but it seemed like the next step to see if anything had value. I found nothing, but I did find how relaxing it was to search while watching TV. It's quite nice to not be triggered right before the need to go to bed and it makes a coin roll last pretty long for me.
Nope, not one, ever. But here's the thing - if I need magnification to see it, it doesn't count. That's the way I was taught.
But I did have a 1982 quarter that EBTH just had to have and went nuts over. They just had to me mail it to them. I have alot to learn thanx
My next one will be my first one, and no time soon. Roll search or error. I do search solid BU rolls from time to time. It's why I have a 1970-S SD in NGC MS66RD. But common everyday bank rolls? Nothing is farther from being worth doing in my mind.
If you love coins and want to be taken seriously, you absolutely MUST remove YouTube from all your devices. YouTube regarding coins is a stupidity maximization engine, purely and simply.
Yep, You Tube & "Strike It Rich With Pocket Change". Two of the biggest monstrosities foisted on us. And the bane of all newbies.
I had to Google it myself. Everything But the House. Estate auctions. To the OP, do you have photos of this quarter? Would love to see them.
Not all error collectors wish to get rich. I don't sell mine unless I upgrade. I collect errors because there is even more to figure out. You pretty much HAVE to have an understanding of the Mint processes, when they changed to different metals, etc. It got me interested in a lot more than as a standard collector. Plus it is fun to put your skills to the test to determine altered coins, fakes, and damaged pieces.
The only person getting rich on pocket change is the guy who lifted someone else’s work and put his name on that confounded book. The YouTube videos come from garden variety idiots who fancy themselves coin experts without having done any of the work.
The fact that he is an NLG award winner speaks more to the lack of quantity of numismatic publishing than the quality thereof. Even crap wins when so few write.
At any rate, I wish absolute newbies would get their noses out of pocket change, get a Red Book, find a series or two they like and start COLLECTING. This hunting for errors crap is robbing them of the fun of the hobby.
