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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8134102, member: 105098"]Hi Differential, depends on what personality you are really if it's something you'll enjoy or not, it's like crochet or knitting, people either stick with it or get bored after an hour and getting nowhere and seem to put off continuing. </p><p><br /></p><p>You won't find varieties if you don't look for them though, and two circulated boxes can become a long mission. I think it will be fruitful to some degree, there's so many, many, minor varieties to look for, and as some have said, the CPG is only going to get you so far while the website resources are much more detailed and up to date. </p><p><br /></p><p>I will say this, you'll either be looking things up forever back and forth in a book or web pages, or sorting the coins forever and tackling them one date and mintmark at a time. And I'd say sorting them first is the better of the two options so you can look at the same coins one after another, even select date and MM that has more varieties to look for and have the reference material at the ready for that particular coin, it's just more thorough a method.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8134102, member: 105098"]Hi Differential, depends on what personality you are really if it's something you'll enjoy or not, it's like crochet or knitting, people either stick with it or get bored after an hour and getting nowhere and seem to put off continuing. You won't find varieties if you don't look for them though, and two circulated boxes can become a long mission. I think it will be fruitful to some degree, there's so many, many, minor varieties to look for, and as some have said, the CPG is only going to get you so far while the website resources are much more detailed and up to date. I will say this, you'll either be looking things up forever back and forth in a book or web pages, or sorting the coins forever and tackling them one date and mintmark at a time. And I'd say sorting them first is the better of the two options so you can look at the same coins one after another, even select date and MM that has more varieties to look for and have the reference material at the ready for that particular coin, it's just more thorough a method.[/QUOTE]
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