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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lawdogct, post: 19320, member: 1476&quot;]<i>My question is, where do you begin?&nbsp; I do not want to be a big collector of errors but would like to have a few examples.&nbsp; Any suggestions on which to buy?</i></p><p><br /></p><p>First let me say...Hello All...this being my first post. I&#039;ve been a reader long enough&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I too have been bitten by the error coin bug.&nbsp; For me it was a die filled 2000 Roosevelt, with the last zero missing that I got back in change.&nbsp; As a relative newbie, I&#039;ll share what I&#039;ve come to understand so far.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best place to begin??? Your own pockets.&nbsp; Really.&nbsp; Start looking closer at what you get back in change.&nbsp; Have a bottle full of coins?&nbsp; Dump it out and take a look.&nbsp; Its a lot cheaper, and you may be pleasantly suprised at what you already have and didn&#039;t know about.&nbsp; The more you look, you more you will get to know what a &quot;normal&quot; coin looks like and the more differences will &quot;jump&quot; out at you.&nbsp; I recently found a 1984 &quot;jailhouse&quot; Lincoln (die-clash) not because I immediately knew what it was, but simply because it looked odd.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A word on buying.....</p><p>As you will see posted many many times here.&nbsp; Read, research, and read some more.&nbsp; This does two things in my mind.&nbsp; First, it goes a long ways in keeping from being burnt.&nbsp; With all that you can find by just doing a simple google.com search, it amazes me how often people fall for some of the trash on ebay and such.&nbsp; Secondly, researching errors, or what you hope is one, will deepen your understanding of error coins (error vs damage, types of errors, how they occur, rarity, collectibility, etc) And will help you to find out what coins you are most passionate about, making error collecting all the more enjoyable.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps answer your initial questions a little bit more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have fun![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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