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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 8076875, member: 84179&quot;]Couple things, </p><p><br /></p><p>Copper is a reactive metal and can tone many different ways depending on the exposed environment.&nbsp; The color differences you see are due to toning, not mint finish.&nbsp; Once again books like the Redbook or sites like <a href="http://lincolncentresource.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://lincolncentresource.com/" rel="nofollow">http://lincolncentresource.com/</a> can help tell if some specific coins have special features.</p><p><br /></p><p>The better looking coins you&#039;re posting are nice, but far from valuable. They can be fun to find in circulation, and make great additions to a date set album collection, but generally are only worth face value.&nbsp; At many shows and coin shops you can buy mint sets that will have better uncirculated coins that are usually cheap.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Until you learn the characteristics of mint errors, most of what you find that looks different is most likely post mint damage (PMD). Its ok to post questions, just don&#039;t get discouraged or upset when you keep getting PMD as a reply. </p><p><br /></p><p>The consensus response, is the correct answer 99.9% of the time.&nbsp; There are enough experienced collectors on here with decades of experience to make sure the responses to new collectors are correct.&nbsp; And if someone posts a wrong answer, it gets corrected pretty quickly, right [USER=114675]@potty dollar 1878[/USER] (sorry to use you as an example, but it may actually be useful)</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep threads to only 1 coin if possible. It can get too confusing giving answers when there are a dozen coins posted.&nbsp; You may want to limit new posts to only a couple a day so as not to overflow the board.&nbsp; Answering new collector questions can take time if you want to be detailed and A bunch of posts can get overwhelming.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like anything new, it takes time to learn.&nbsp; Best of luck[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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