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<p>[QUOTE="DEA, post: 5388881, member: 90140"]I'd like to second thomas mozzillo's response. I'd like to add a couple of things. </p><p><br /></p><p>First, keep in mind that the likelihood of getting rich from an error coin you find is slim. I am pretty sure we have similar if not better odds of winning the lottery. </p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly, because you are learning the ins and outs of coins, I recommend you hang on to anything you find that catches your eye or is an obvious error. I say this because as you learn more, there will come a day when you regret having tossed a coin back into the wild. Keep them for a while, research how the error happened, and, in a year or so, if you're not more attached to a coin, spend it. I am assuming that you find no more than a couple of bucks a year of coins that are mint errors. In my experience, a buck worth of errors in a year would be high. I have never found anything as significant as your 1977 nickel. In fact, as far as I can remember (not very long), the only thing I've found in the past year is a cent piece that is most likely post mint damage but could possibly be a clipped blank.</p><p><br /></p><p> Best regards to all!</p><p> David[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DEA, post: 5388881, member: 90140"]I'd like to second thomas mozzillo's response. I'd like to add a couple of things. First, keep in mind that the likelihood of getting rich from an error coin you find is slim. I am pretty sure we have similar if not better odds of winning the lottery. Secondly, because you are learning the ins and outs of coins, I recommend you hang on to anything you find that catches your eye or is an obvious error. I say this because as you learn more, there will come a day when you regret having tossed a coin back into the wild. Keep them for a while, research how the error happened, and, in a year or so, if you're not more attached to a coin, spend it. I am assuming that you find no more than a couple of bucks a year of coins that are mint errors. In my experience, a buck worth of errors in a year would be high. I have never found anything as significant as your 1977 nickel. In fact, as far as I can remember (not very long), the only thing I've found in the past year is a cent piece that is most likely post mint damage but could possibly be a clipped blank. Best regards to all! David[/QUOTE]
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