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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jay4202472000, post: 1918070, member: 42573&quot;]This is a &quot;very rough draft&quot; of an idea I&#039;ve been kicking around in my head for about a month.&nbsp; Please have a read if you have time and give me some feedback.&nbsp; I&#039;m just looking to see if there is any interest in this idea or if I need to squash it now and forget it.&nbsp; If I have a good reception, I will take some time to refine it and run it by the mods.&nbsp; Any and all comments, good or bad, are welcome.&nbsp; Also any ideas to refine it will be considered carefully.&nbsp; Thanks all!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>I am wondering if any newer error/variety coin collectors would like to join me in a &quot;research project&quot; I have been thinking about for some time.&nbsp; I normally go do research on errors/varieties as I find something or if I see a coin in a thread that is interesting.&nbsp; Over the past couple of years, I have learned a lot doing this, but I have been thinking about picking one type of error or variety per week, and researching and studying this one type.&nbsp; I would love for as many people as possible to take part in the discussion, but I would like to have maybe 10 or so beginner error/variety collectors to be a part of a, for lack of a better term, weekly class.</i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i>I want to state up front that I am FAR FROM AN EXPERT.&nbsp; This will be a learning experience for me also.&nbsp; However, I will only use facts, from reputable sources, in the subject matter.&nbsp; I will not be &quot;teaching&quot; things I &quot;think&quot;.&nbsp; I would select an error or variety type, research it using a few different sources, compare the information from the sources, and present what I learned in summary.&nbsp; I would also have links to the sites I used for my research.&nbsp; I would present the information and links on, let&#039;s say, Sunday.&nbsp; Then, we could all discuss the subject and check out the links.&nbsp; Then on, let&#039;s say, Friday I could post a relatively short &quot;quiz&quot; (maybe 20 questions).&nbsp; The questions would be true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank, ect.&nbsp; You would have a couple of days to PM me the answers.&nbsp; Then at the end of 4 weeks, whoever had the best average of the 4 &quot;quizzes&quot; gets a prize.&nbsp; The prize would also be a &quot;test&quot; of sorts.&nbsp; I could take a roll of cents from a brick and take one coin out, &quot;load&quot; the roll with an error or variety coin, and see if the winner catches the error/variety.&nbsp; We could keep going until the interest fades.</i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i>I think this could be a good way to introduce different errors/varieties to beginners while offering a small incentive to learn about the different types of errors/varieties.&nbsp; This, at this point, is just a thought rolling around in my head.&nbsp; I am just trying to see how it would be received and if there are 10 beginner collectors that would like to take part.</i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i>I have learned so much from you guys &amp; would like to do my part in helping some folks out.&nbsp; It also seems like a fun idea.</i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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