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Message:: [QUOTE="Hobo, post: 402945, member: 11521"]Learn how coins are made and how they used to be made. You must understand the minting process to understand many aspects of coin collecting.  You need to understand how dies are made and how coins are made from them to understand the clues to why a coin is a counterfeit and how clash marks appear on a coin. You must understand the coin minting process to understand how error coins are produced (or why an "error" is not genuine). You must understand how a coin is made by a planchet being pressed at high pressure between dies to understand a weak strike and how a weak strike differs from wear. You need to understand die polishing to be able to distinguish between die polish and a scratch.  You must must understand how die cracks appear on a coin to be able to tell the difference between a die crack and a scratch. You need to understand the differences between the process of making business strikes and Proof coins to be able to understand the differences between the coins.[/QUOTE]