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Message:: [QUOTE="differential, post: 8134236, member: 120104"]Thanks JB. I think there's a switch on my personality that goes small details/large picture. Usually it's on large picture. I'm thinking I'll first sort the cents according to decades, then by year, then by mintmark. There's a Zen in that kind of back and forth motion. I am still learning to identify Early American Cents and one does go back and forth in the book. I've had many more misses than hits. Large Canadian Cents have about 80 varieties in the 2011 Charlton Book. Then I guess there are hundreds and hundreds of micro-varieties. I think all the major varieties are chosen and you have to buy them. So gone are the days when one can have a huge pile of Vicky cents and go through them and find the varieties. The same with the early American coppers--you can attribute one if you purchase it, but there will never be the opportunity to go through a large number of them and look for varieties that way. If/when it gets frustrating, I'll try to take a deep breath and shift over to something else. And if it's too frustrating, I'll have incredible respect for those who have discovered varieties and still look for them.[/QUOTE]