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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 551027, member: 16510&quot;]<b>This is proving to be timely info. this week.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Remember - the goal is &quot;look close enough at real errors and varieties but not to close at everything else&quot;. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>This is proving to be timely info. this week.&nbsp; So, what do I really mean when I say this?</p><p>Just as it has been said about where to find gold?&nbsp; Go where gold has been&nbsp; found!</p><p>Same here,&nbsp; so often new people get interested in errors of varieties and start seeing little things on coins and jump to the conclusion they have found something very special by looking way too close at things that are not very likely to yield anything.&nbsp; This is generally true because they lack the experience needed to discern what it is and how it happened.&nbsp; As I have said before we, die specialist&#039;s must first find the error or variety and then be able to explain <b>why and how it happened</b> or <b>why and how it could not happen - the latter actually being more important in the big scheme of things.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Why is that you ask?&nbsp; It is because we find (like you will) much more stuff that could be, might be, we wish it would be - but is not.&nbsp; The reason is we know how dies are made and used and what exactly happens during the minting process so, <b>we can rule it out.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We do look at most every coin but we really look at for instance, in the Lincoln series, especially at 1917, 1936, 1943 P, D &amp; S, 1955, 1960, 1964, 1969-S, 1970-S, 1971-S 1972, 1983, 1984, 1995 and so on.&nbsp; That where the treasure is.&nbsp; How do we know that because that where others before us have found&quot;the big ones are&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you do not own The Error Coin Encyclopedia by Margolis/Weinburg, both Cherry Pickers guilds by Fivas/Stanton and at least 2 books each on every series of U.S. Coins I sincerely do not know how you would ever get to where you can do &quot;what we do&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You guys/gals are just going to have to trust most of us when we say, &quot;it ain&#039;t nothing&quot; because when you do find something we are sure going to tell you you have found something good.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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