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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 4214388, member: 84179&quot;][USER=111163]@David Brumley[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>While there are some decent Youtube videos out there (from the Mint, CoinWeek, etc.), there is a lot of junk making outrageous claims and not telling the whole story, just to get clicks and followers.&nbsp; They make it sound so easy to look through your change and find coins worth lots of money.&nbsp;&nbsp; If it was that easy, most of the experienced members on Coin Talk would be sitting on a beach drinking tropical cocktails with little umbrellas in them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those sites pose a problem for the new collector.&nbsp; With little numismatic experience but lots of enthusiasm, how do you know which to trust?&nbsp; The best thing to do is ignore the ones that make it sound easy to find errors or say they are worth big money.&nbsp; Yes, there are errors worth big money, but it’s equivalent to lottery odds finding one in change.</p><p><br /></p><p>Get a Redbook (shown in an earlier post) and read it.&nbsp; Look for Youtube sites that show how coins are made.&nbsp; The more you know about the minting process, the easier it will be to recognize real errors from the huge number of damaged coins out there.&nbsp;&nbsp; It takes time, but we were all newbies at some point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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