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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 582206, member: 16510&quot;]<b>What I mean is</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What I mean is your looking to close on coins that will not matter much.</p><p>Now here me out.&nbsp; Your looking at a 1964-P Lincoln Cent there are basically 2 dies that have value in circulated condition # 1 and #58 (I think that&#039;s it) the rest are as common as dust.&nbsp; Even these coins will not realize very much money below XF.&nbsp; Plus it depends on what you are wanting to accomplish here - in the early days I saved every slight RPM and DoublED die no matter how small it may be and it helped me learn but my focus has drifted to &quot;the money coins&quot; - which in turn are the big ones.&nbsp; For instance I will search every reverse of 1964 Lincoln&#039;s but not even glance at the obverse any longer and I try and put my time in on BU 1964-P because in those may be some money coins.</p><p>I no longer search coins where no doublED dies have been found or at best just minor ones.&nbsp; These coins are not money coins and I would rather search &quot;where gold has been found before&quot; - that&#039;s all I&#039;m saying.</p><p>I&#039;ll give you an example when going through circulated cent rolls:</p><p>I never look at 1979,78,77, or 1965, 61, plus 1993-D, 2005-D, 2007-D, 2008 anything 1991-D an so on - there ain&#039;t nothing in them - I spend my time on the others.&nbsp; Plus if a coin is ruined or in very bad shape the only ones I look at are 1969-S, 70-S, 72-P, 83-P and 84-P plus 95-D and the wide AM&#039;s.&nbsp; Now before anyone says it yes, I may miss a new discovery but it&#039;s not likely and I have been doing this a long time so,</p><p>All I&#039;m saying is if you look to hard at coins that are<b> not</b> known to have varieties in them (or at least not very big ones) your honing your skills on the fodder and not the gold - if you spend your time on years/mints that <b>do</b> have known varieties you have not only a better chance of finding the bigger ones you will hone your skills on learning those more often.</p><p>Hope this helps![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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