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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DaneC020, post: 3176486, member: 97761&quot;]Hi guys, my name is Dane. I just joined the forum but I have a small collection of silver dollars and steel pennies. I am not a major collector but just starting to get into the hobby. I had questions about some of my common coins and what to expect out of error finding. I hope that it isn&#039;t improper for me to ask so many questions on my first post but I am just really interested and was happy to see an error section of the forums. I plan to keep researching and don&#039;t want you to think I&#039;m trying to be spoon fed so feel free to answer anything with as little or as much detail as possible and skip other questions. Anything is helpful at this stage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was going through my Connecticut Quarters to see if I had a broadside and found this border issue. It is minor but the border is smaller on one side than the other. </p><p>[ATTACH]817526[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]817527[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also went through some of my older pennies and noticed they had alignment issues as well, but on the pennies I am not sure if those years they were made that way? I found a lot of them had the same issue with the one in the left of the picture having the most severe of them.</p><p>[ATTACH]817528[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, I found one of my 1978 quarters had a stair step to the border on the right side of the coin. Once again, minor error but does this bring any real value to coins? I read articles about several errors that brings thousands of dollars and wonder if this is really true. It seems like a lot of coins have errors because it is easy to have calibration errors or other mistakes during printing.</p><p>[ATTACH]817524[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]817525[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Since I am new and hope to be collecting for awhile, what do you guys use to clean coins that are in circulation? I am not talking about taking the patina off but to remove the grease, gum, dirt, or whatever else is stuck to the surface of the coin. Or do you just leave it as found?</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, I am looking to buy a metal detector so when me and the wife goes camping I have something to do along the trails. What do you guys recommend? Anything under a $1000 would be the budget but also don&#039;t need the latest and greatest. If I could save money then that would be good <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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