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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tomfiggy, post: 2349581, member: 51884&quot;]I started this hobby about 3 years ago. Someone gave me a 5 gallon water jug half full of pre 1990 cents. A lot of them were damaged, some were from extremely worn dies. Some were missing digits, and letters, some had strange distortion, and various environmental damage, MD, PMD, etc. I looked through them with a cheap loupe and thought I could retire with all the great &quot;error coins&quot; (oh was already retired). I submitted lots, and lots of stupid coins on here and was continually shot down. Along the way I studied the websites above, and continued to search. Slowly but surely I learned how to take pics for submission, how to distinguish different types of MD from die doubling, and a good idea of where, and what to look for in the different series of Lincoln Cents. I have found some really cool doubled die&#039;s in the wild, and it is a source of happiness that I set out to do something, and did it. The one thing that I learned more than anything else is that most die errors have already been found. The chance of someone finding a new doubled die are very small indeed, unless we are talking shield designs there are a few per year (not Denver). If I can&#039;t match a doubled die candidate to any listing I get skeptical. A good place to send coins for attribution that won&#039;t cost an arm and a leg is Coneca. If you join Coneca ($20 year plus you get a great magazine) it&#039;s $4.00 per coin. If you don&#039;t join Coneca it&#039;s $5.00 per coin. I thing a grading service charges at least 10 to 15 times that.. If you get one back from Coneca attributed you can then determine it&#039;s worth, and whether or not you want to slab it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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