Help I'm so confused on this penny I found is it beat up or a error

Hiya @Jessie R Loudon - Welcome to CoinTalk.

One of the best things I appreciate about life and the way the world is designed is that time is broken down into parts. So, for instance, we get a chance for a brand new fresh start each 24 hours. In fact, we can make a brand new start every minute, hour or even one moment to the next. So why don't we try this again.

You arrived with a question and were given an answer by one of our most talented and dedicated experts. I got confused because i thought you posted two different coins but it appears to have been the same coin again. Anyway, I'm sorry if you felt ridiculed.

I hope you'll stick around CoinTalk. It is a good thing that younger people are becoming interested in the hobby. Let me give you a couple of on line resources you will find helpful as you look at your coins.

1. http://www.varietyvista.com/index.htm

2. http://www.lincolncentresource.com/index.html

3. http://www.doubleddie.com/1801.html

I actually find No. 2 to be the easiest to use. There are others. And, if you spend some time reading the posts of others and the answers they receive, you will learn what is and is not a valuable mint error and what is damage caused after a coin left the mint. There is so much to learn that sometimes I am overwhelmed and I wonder if I will ever "get it." Just have patience with yourself and with others.

I notice that there certainly IS a certain sense of humor that numismatists have. It is rather dry and a bit sarcastic and reallllly funny, if you can laugh at yourself.

Oh! One other thing. I don't know if you can, but you should see about using another name if the name you are using now is your real name. I would not recommend using your real name on a website where there is chat and messaging and such.

I hope you feel better.

La Cointessa (also a relative newbie)

 

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