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<p>[QUOTE="RBurk, post: 7441222, member: 105984"]Interesting posts, and all are well taken. </p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not, I have extremely low expectations of "getting rich" from this coin or even the "more significant" finds I've had such as a 1936 DDO, a D/S and many of the less significant DDR's from the memorial cents I'm going through right now. I probably have a dozen or two of them. They have not been posted here because of the obvious lower significance and the fact that they are well documented and understood. A few of my finds may be worth 2 or 3 digits. I don't try to sell them though because I enjoy having them in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the argument of "if you need a microscope..." I'm going to disagree. First, my eyes are over 60 years of age and don't work like they used to. A loupe does not magnify most of my coins enough for me to be able to inspect them. I can see the anomaly of the coin photographed for this original post with a loupe, but not well. I would have missed both the 1936 DD and the D/S without the microscope. Additionally, many of the errors considered to have some value (such as listed on NGC Variety Plus and Variety Vista) require magnification to see, at least for many of us. Think about the less significant DDO's, the designer initials, etc. They are still significant and some even valuable. I remember the day I was able to see a pattern on 1mm surface mount capacitor without magnification. Those days are long past now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RBurk, post: 7441222, member: 105984"]Interesting posts, and all are well taken. Believe it or not, I have extremely low expectations of "getting rich" from this coin or even the "more significant" finds I've had such as a 1936 DDO, a D/S and many of the less significant DDR's from the memorial cents I'm going through right now. I probably have a dozen or two of them. They have not been posted here because of the obvious lower significance and the fact that they are well documented and understood. A few of my finds may be worth 2 or 3 digits. I don't try to sell them though because I enjoy having them in my collection. Regarding the argument of "if you need a microscope..." I'm going to disagree. First, my eyes are over 60 years of age and don't work like they used to. A loupe does not magnify most of my coins enough for me to be able to inspect them. I can see the anomaly of the coin photographed for this original post with a loupe, but not well. I would have missed both the 1936 DD and the D/S without the microscope. Additionally, many of the errors considered to have some value (such as listed on NGC Variety Plus and Variety Vista) require magnification to see, at least for many of us. Think about the less significant DDO's, the designer initials, etc. They are still significant and some even valuable. I remember the day I was able to see a pattern on 1mm surface mount capacitor without magnification. Those days are long past now.[/QUOTE]
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