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<p>[QUOTE="Hommer, post: 8378224, member: 73266"]I want to add to my post some. When searching through a pile or lot of coins for varieties, it can become a quite confusing and daunting task. Especially if you are going at it with a ramdom coin just pulled from the sack ( yeah sack, I'm southern).</p><p><br /></p><p>It is much easier to separate the coins by date and mint mark and once that is done, research and learn the varieties for that date and mintmark before you go through that stack. For one you will retain more of what you learned with your research and for 2, it is not nearly as daunting a task. It doesn't matter which stack of dates you start with as long as you research varieties before going through that date.</p><p>If you find something interesting set it aside for further research at a later date. This will relieve some of the pareidolia that becomes inevitable with constant stairing at similar details.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hommer, post: 8378224, member: 73266"]I want to add to my post some. When searching through a pile or lot of coins for varieties, it can become a quite confusing and daunting task. Especially if you are going at it with a ramdom coin just pulled from the sack ( yeah sack, I'm southern). It is much easier to separate the coins by date and mint mark and once that is done, research and learn the varieties for that date and mintmark before you go through that stack. For one you will retain more of what you learned with your research and for 2, it is not nearly as daunting a task. It doesn't matter which stack of dates you start with as long as you research varieties before going through that date. If you find something interesting set it aside for further research at a later date. This will relieve some of the pareidolia that becomes inevitable with constant stairing at similar details.[/QUOTE]
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