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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dawnzig, post: 1283970, member: 33741&quot;]Hi all~</p><p><br /></p><p>Obvious newbie here! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> And just getting started scrutinizing a big batch of coins for errors... am struck (unlike some coins I&#039;m finding, lol ;-&gt;) by how many I&#039;m seeing (starting on quarters) that have what appear to be obvious filled die/struck thru grease errors. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m wondering if there&#039;s any easy way to tell if something&#039;s PMD or truly mint damaged?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, am I correct to assume that &#039;struck thru grease&#039; is a type of filled-die error? Are other filled-die errors?</p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, I&#039;m beginning to wonder if doing this is truly worthwhile--aside from personal collecting, that is--in terms of actual, physical cash value?--my &#039;modus operandi&#039; behind studying the coins rather than simply dropping &#039;em into a coin machine. </p><p><br /></p><p>I mean, being that it appears 10 of 29 quarters I&#039;ve checked so far seem to have some kind of &#039;error&#039;--at that rate can any of &#039;em truly be that valuable? </p><p><br /></p><p>Let me qualify that by saying I realize some damage is more valuable than others, but in my case it&#039;s mostly where letters appear missing/illegible -- i.e., one clearly looks like it says &#039;L Pluribus Unum&#039;, and there are two others that have &#039;E Pluribus Unu&#039; because those letters maybe didn&#039;t strike properly??--Or maybe, because I&#039;m so new at this, these really aren&#039;t mistakes at all?? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I thought I&#039;d researched thoroughly enough what to look for in pix and text, but am finding that the more I look at my own coins, the more I&#039;m questioning what I&#039;ve &#039;learned&#039; thus far.... and wondering if the time necessary to go thru my massive pile will be futile. :scratch:</p><p><br /></p><p>Just for grins and chuckles, I browsed ebay to see what some of the error coins go for and--from my own selling experience--know that selling something for, say, 79-99 cents just isn&#039;t worth the time, effort, fees &amp; postage....no? Of course some errors sold for much more but those were mostly rarer ones with rarer mistakes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Do most people on here collect for the joy of it? Has/does anyone make $$ doing so? </p><p><br /></p><p>Am I going about this all wrong? Thoughts? Hints? Advice? Chiding? Arse-whooping? :goofer:</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks kindly~</p><p>Dawn aka dawnzig[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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