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Message:: [QUOTE="desertgem, post: 3350961, member: 15199"]If you stick around, or read back threads for a while, you will find that 98% of the "errors and frankly weirdness observations are due to 1. Youtube and get rich with pocket change videos, and people who claim to sell such on eBay, etsy, etc. that know only that " a sucker is converted to a searcher every few minutes". 2. People who develop fantasy stories about how the coin came to be .     Yes, most today are made in a garage, but they are worthless. Very very few are made by the minting process, and they can be valuable. The key is to know the difference. The only way is to read everything about that process so you can distinguish the worthless. No one gets paid on the forum, not even moderators who have to clean up the trash. The forum is for numismatic education , to teach those interested how to learn and interpret the processes that produce them, but most of the posts want to confirm a "rarity:, (and there are a few that are rarities), but most are not. You can learn a lot here, but it does take time to absorb and understand. You can say what you want about a certain coin, but there are specific rules that apply to people and certain subjects, so please read the rules ( under the "forum" pulldown at the top of the page). Jim[/QUOTE]