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<p>[QUOTE="tomfiggy, post: 2479051, member: 51884"]It does not matter what it is.... Only what it is not,</p><p>They won't tell you what happened to it, they will tell you it is not a doubled die (if you pay all the extra fees to do research). The first thing to do is read some of the wonderful articles at "error-ref.com", "Coppercoins.com", "doubleddie.com", "<a href="http://www.lincolncentforum.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lincolncentforum.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lincolncentforum.com/</a>", "varietyvista.com,and some more I forgot to mention. There are resources for learning about what makes a valuable error coin, and what is a spender. If you search enough you might find out what may, or may not have happened to your coin. We get someone on here almost every day now with a coin they think is a holy grail (myself included). They will get their feelings hurt and usually never come back. The really crazy ones (like me) stay on and keep trying. We get excited at 1:00 AM when we see double from looking at so many coins with so many weird problems.</p><p>Then post it on here only to feel knocked down again. After a while I learned more and at about 9 months of searching a box per month I found my first doubled die. You learn not to take it personally. It's not about you. It's only about the coin, and if you are right or wrong in your attribution.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="tomfiggy, post: 2479051, member: 51884"]It does not matter what it is.... Only what it is not, They won't tell you what happened to it, they will tell you it is not a doubled die (if you pay all the extra fees to do research). The first thing to do is read some of the wonderful articles at "error-ref.com", "Coppercoins.com", "doubleddie.com", "[url]http://www.lincolncentforum.com/[/url]", "varietyvista.com,and some more I forgot to mention. There are resources for learning about what makes a valuable error coin, and what is a spender. If you search enough you might find out what may, or may not have happened to your coin. We get someone on here almost every day now with a coin they think is a holy grail (myself included). They will get their feelings hurt and usually never come back. The really crazy ones (like me) stay on and keep trying. We get excited at 1:00 AM when we see double from looking at so many coins with so many weird problems. Then post it on here only to feel knocked down again. After a while I learned more and at about 9 months of searching a box per month I found my first doubled die. You learn not to take it personally. It's not about you. It's only about the coin, and if you are right or wrong in your attribution.[/QUOTE]
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