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Message:: [QUOTE="rmpsrpms, post: 2800915, member: 31773"]The first rule of Error and Variety searching is to look at the coins first, then look at the references to attribute your interesting finds. I know that sounds backwards from everyone else's "Read the book first", but really the coins are most important. Learn to look around the whole coin, and to identify RPMs, Doubled Dies, Chips, Breaks, Cracks, Cuds, Struck-Throughs, Off-Centers, Weak and Strong Strikes, Thin and Thick Planchets, Straight and Curved Clips, etc etc. What you want to do is to study each coin type, and learn what that type is "supposed" to look like. Then put aside anything that looks "different". Go back after looking through a roll and carefully examine each of these "different" coins, and figure out why they are different. Then look through the ones you thought were normal, and see if you missed anything. If you do this, not only will you learn quickly about errors and varieties, but you won't miss anything, and you may even find something that no one else has found yet.[/QUOTE]