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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevin Mader, post: 25364403, member: 106826&quot;]As you’ve guessed, lots of online resources to visit and learn from.&nbsp; What you are experiencing is common.&nbsp; It’s easy to be overwhelmed.&nbsp; So, it’s best you read, read, and read.&nbsp; It’s really the only way to get to a manageable list.&nbsp; But your end goal remains the same.&nbsp; You’re just refining the input part of things. </p><p><br /></p><p>When starting as a collector, I was actually a hoarder.&nbsp; I piled up cents and nickels from my paper routes and set them aside. To the greater extent, it remains a hoard of common coinage, albeit an older hoard.&nbsp; The thing is that is I didn’t have that hoard, I wouldn’t have had such a lot to Variety and Error hunt some 30 years later.&nbsp; And when I did, I was happy that by dumb coincidence it paid dividends.&nbsp; Very low dividends.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You’ll need to determine where your hoarder/collector line lives.&nbsp; I dumped a bunch of the common stuff a decade ago to only wish I had it to recheck when I&nbsp; learn of a new interesting variety.&nbsp; But, truth be told, it’s less likely that I passed up anything significant now that I’ve built up the internal memory banks. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do keep a small hoard of cents and nickels but only for the chance to give some fresh binders and the hoard to potential young collectors.&nbsp; Maybe $50 face for each getting dusty. Otherwise, back to the wild they go.&nbsp; No sense from my position to maintain them from potential public interest.&nbsp; And I have roll sets of dates and mm’s if one youngster catches the bug.&nbsp; Other than a handful of dates, everything is rather affordable.&nbsp; And the truth is that the memories made with grandchildren are infinitely more precious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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