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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 690625, member: 16510"]Bill I respect your style and right to "look at every coin"  Bill I respect your opinion and you certainly have the right to "look at every coin" but all of us tired eyed roll and hoard searchers do it a little different I think.I look for "the money coin" for years I sent in box after box of stuff to Bordner, Welxer, Ribar, Potter and Crawford and added several dozen new varieties to the above mentioned files.Then if had 37 (or 237 as I often did) extra BU copies of say 1960-D WRPM-200 where to go with them.  I found myself with several thousand new and old die varieites in tubes that no one except a few would ever want.  I sold boxes of them to Sullivan in Nashville for the grand total of 5 to 9 cents each.It began to dawn on me that while it's great to find these minors it was never going to be that profitable.Don't get me arong, I still buy every bank wrapped roll that is offered to me but this is not where "the money is" and it's not what the "coin buying public wants" either.  For better of worse, if it's not in the Red Book or at least the CPG it ain't going to bring much attention or "feed the bulldog".The guy that found that 82 rev. was indeed a lucky and determined variety dude.  But I will never, I mean never search 1978 or 79, 1965, Lincoln Cents unless they are MS-67 Reds and then just for the coin itself without a die variety.  Now most other dates I will check depending on condition.  Now I may miss something big but I'm going to chance it.By the way I always search the 82's because it was a transition year and I have manged to put most of the 7 different ones up in 66, 67 Red.I guess what I'm trying to say is at first I searched everything and found everything but it was not helping me that much spending time on "the minors" - nobody including me really cared or desired them - I felt like a was waisting time.For the very recent minors I find dozens every week, I like the wavy steps but the extra collums I just throw back in the sak to be returned to the bank unless they are gems then I give those to kids or others who may find an interest in them - I also give all circulated doubled dies and top RPM's to folks just to share "the finds".  This past week I found 2 1968-D/D RPM #1, a 1964-P DDR #1 and several of the big 1960-D RPM's - I will give them to friends at my show Saturday.  I have sent doubled dies free of charge to several on this site.I think many go thru this early learning stage when they get excited about every little thing. I know I did but now I look for the better ones - it's hard enough doing that on a full time basis.If someone ever finds a big 1979-P Lincoln DDO I'll say, "well I guess I should have looked" and be the first to say I was wrong but I think this boils down to "bang for the buck".I think we all search different in some way or another and that's just fine.Maybe it's best at first to search everthing and on that you may be right![/QUOTE]

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