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<p>[QUOTE="digitect, post: 1495331, member: 38157"]Two weeks of trying to fill a Whitman album with Lincoln Memorial Cents will be a great start on learning as quickly as possible. Buy a Red Book, a 10x triplet loupe, some cardboard flips, and a full-clinch stapler and read the <a href="http://www.lincolncentresource.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lincolncentresource.com/" rel="nofollow">Lincoln Cent Resource</a>. Go to the bank and "buy" five rolls of pennies. Then ten more. Visit every local coin and pawn shop in your area first <i>before you buy anything from any of them.</i> Then move to Jefferson Nickels, then Roosevelt Dimes at five and ten times more expensive. Visit a coin show.</p><p><br /></p><p>It won't take long before you'll start caring about the difference between grades, can discriminate between a deal and a rip-off, and figure out what kind of coin collection you initially want develop.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="digitect, post: 1495331, member: 38157"]Two weeks of trying to fill a Whitman album with Lincoln Memorial Cents will be a great start on learning as quickly as possible. Buy a Red Book, a 10x triplet loupe, some cardboard flips, and a full-clinch stapler and read the [url=http://www.lincolncentresource.com/]Lincoln Cent Resource[/url]. Go to the bank and "buy" five rolls of pennies. Then ten more. Visit every local coin and pawn shop in your area first [i]before you buy anything from any of them.[/i] Then move to Jefferson Nickels, then Roosevelt Dimes at five and ten times more expensive. Visit a coin show. It won't take long before you'll start caring about the difference between grades, can discriminate between a deal and a rip-off, and figure out what kind of coin collection you initially want develop.[/QUOTE]
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