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<p>[QUOTE="huntsman53, post: 170961, member: 1242"]Bill,</p><p><br /></p><p>I know exactly what you mean! Even the experts and attributers must check with almost every expert, attributer, publication and the likes to determine if a possible new RPM or Doubled Die, has already been listed or submitted. It would really be nice if all of the Coin Experts and Attributers would get together and pull all of their resources to write and publish say "The Encyclopedia of RPM and Doubled Die Lincoln Cents" and then just publish quarterly and annual updates in between newer versions which should be published every 5 years or so, at the least. This should also be the case for most other coin series as well! Since so many folks want and expect a piece of the pie per say, I doubt that there will ever be such a book published and we all will still be stuck with purchasing and lugging around umpteen books on this Error/Variety or that Error/Variety for many, many years to come!</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have quite a few discoveries that are probably new finds but I have many, many more that are probably already published, noted or recorded somewhere by someone. The thing that is even more frustrating than trying to determine if an error is a new find or not, is trying to determine what it is worth. I have literally hundreds of coins sitting in bags because I have no idea as to what they are worth and many times it is an excercise in futility to 2x2, label and then even try to sell some of them. It is sometimes so frustrating, that I have been tempted many times to just separate all of these coins by denominations and types of errors, into bags and and sell them this way on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Frank[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="huntsman53, post: 170961, member: 1242"]Bill, I know exactly what you mean! Even the experts and attributers must check with almost every expert, attributer, publication and the likes to determine if a possible new RPM or Doubled Die, has already been listed or submitted. It would really be nice if all of the Coin Experts and Attributers would get together and pull all of their resources to write and publish say "The Encyclopedia of RPM and Doubled Die Lincoln Cents" and then just publish quarterly and annual updates in between newer versions which should be published every 5 years or so, at the least. This should also be the case for most other coin series as well! Since so many folks want and expect a piece of the pie per say, I doubt that there will ever be such a book published and we all will still be stuck with purchasing and lugging around umpteen books on this Error/Variety or that Error/Variety for many, many years to come! I also have quite a few discoveries that are probably new finds but I have many, many more that are probably already published, noted or recorded somewhere by someone. The thing that is even more frustrating than trying to determine if an error is a new find or not, is trying to determine what it is worth. I have literally hundreds of coins sitting in bags because I have no idea as to what they are worth and many times it is an excercise in futility to 2x2, label and then even try to sell some of them. It is sometimes so frustrating, that I have been tempted many times to just separate all of these coins by denominations and types of errors, into bags and and sell them this way on eBay. Frank[/QUOTE]
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