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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1060659, member: 57463&quot;]Well, let me suggest that as nice as Cincinnati and the Tri-State area is, you will not find the books you need in a used bookstore.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>First of all, I checked the ANA Library for &quot;Errors&quot; and got over 180 hits.&nbsp; If you are serious about this, the ANA is an important resource.&nbsp; The library will lend you books.&nbsp; All you have to do is pay the shipping and insurance both ways.&nbsp; Membership is still under $40 per year, less if you take the electronic version, not the print edition of the magazine.&nbsp; American Numismatic Association: <a href="http://www.money.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.money.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.money.org</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>For $25 a year you can join CONECA, the Combined Organization of Numismatic Error Collectors.&nbsp; (Website here: <a href="http://conecaonline.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://conecaonline.org/" rel="nofollow">http://conecaonline.org/</a>) </p><p><br /></p><p>Among those 180 books were these:</p><p>The cherrypicker&#039;s guide to rare die varieties by Bill Fivaz and J. T. Stanton.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default.aspx?Page=81&amp;ProductID=0794822851" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default.aspx?Page=81&amp;ProductID=0794822851" rel="nofollow">(Whitman Publishing.&nbsp; Website here</a>.)&nbsp; </p><p>The best of the Jefferson nickel doubled die varieties&nbsp; by John A. Wexler, published by <a href="http://www.brooklyngallery.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?search=action&amp;category=0165&amp;keywords=all" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.brooklyngallery.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?search=action&amp;category=0165&amp;keywords=all" rel="nofollow">Brooklyn Galleries (website here)</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>...Best of the Washington quarter doubled die varieties. ... The encyclopedia of doubled dies: Volume I.&nbsp; ...&nbsp; The Lincoln cent double die, a complete listing &amp; price guide of over 200 known Lincoln cent double die varieties. ...&nbsp; Over mintmarks and hot repunched mintmarks. ... </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Wexler&#039;s Doubled Die Website: <a href="http://doubleddie.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://doubleddie.com/" rel="nofollow">http://doubleddie.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, realize that at some level, studying errors is the wrong way to<b> find </b>errors. The books can help you validate and verify and evaluate your finds.&nbsp; But to find errors, you have to look at your money and know what perfect examples look like.&nbsp; Anything not perfect is a possible find.&nbsp; (By perfect, of course, I don&#039;t mean Mint State, though there is that.&nbsp; I mean standard, correct, the intended outcome.)&nbsp; You might find cracked dies, clashed dies, strike-throughs, etc., etc., etc.&nbsp; You have to learn what you are looking at.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of these Error Gurus (Kevin Flynn, I think), told me that he started collecting errors in the Army in the &#039;60s because all he could afford was to look at his pocket change.&nbsp; I&#039;m just saying, a pair of eyes and maybe a hand lens will be a good start.&nbsp; You find some errors, use your profits to join the ANA and CONECA and buy some books.&nbsp; (But do not <b>buy</b> any errors until you <b>buy the books</b>.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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