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BBrown75

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  1. I do toll searches (mostly nickels and Pennies to see how many years I can pull out of rolls to complete a set, just for the challenge. I’m not necessarily looking for errors/varieties but if I do it’s just a bonus. My very first nickel box from the local bank I found 2 silver war nickels which I thought was pretty cool. I’ve been collecting long enough to know that finding anything “rare” in circulation is about 0.01%. What I don’t understand is why it bothers some people how others choose to spend their time enjoying certain aspects of the coin collecting hobby,
  2. Hey thanks for the response. I think there was a lot of misunderstanding in my post. I am NOT a newbie collector. I simply haven’t ever found any doubled dies in my collecting past, and when I saw this coin (I’m just trying to put together a set of the quarters and looking for neat “varieties” thst catch my eye). I was unsure what I had. I’m not looking to get rich off the hobby. I do it for my own enjoyment, and to keep myself from going bonkers from boredom lol. I have collected for 35+ years, and only recently gotten pretty seriously into putting together a circulated seated dime collection (currently #6 with only 11 coins!) and it sparked my interest in roll searching and trying to put together roll searched-only sets of cents, nickels and quarters. Just as a challenge to see how many holes I can fill this way. In the past I’ve collected a bit of everything, with no real focus. THIS cost me a lot of wasted time and money. I’m now trying to put together that seated dime set in as nice of condition as I can afford. Being disabled and on a limited budget, it’s going to be a slow but rewarding project I’m sure. I appreciate everyone commenting, even those I disagree with in certain aspects. Thank you all for the advice. Brandon
  3. I understand, but if you’re going to be a representative of the hobby by answering questions for people, it’s not all about what you say but how you say it. Like I said, your tone of your response and your statements about the reasons why new collectors start out looking for these errors, wanting to get rich, etc….well why should their intentions matter to you? If it continues to get new collectors interested in the hobby, who cares what their intentions are! Maybe if newbies asking questions to gain knowledge about certain aspects of the hobby bothers you in some way, you shouldn’t be here commenting on their posts?
  4. It may not be your intention, but if I’m being honest, your question, and the rest of your post come off very condescending and unwelcoming to “newbie’s” wanting information. You may reconsider how you respond to questions here, or maybe remember back when there were new aspects of the hobby that you had to learn. I am FAR from a new collector. I’ve been collecting for 35+ years, and only recently started hearing about the errors in the newer quarters, and have always been fascinated with mint errors, which is why I said I was “casually” roll searching and looking to learn about them. My confusion between picking out DD vs. MD. Is simply because as some pointed out, in modern coins, DD is rare and I wanted to clarify what I was seeing was MD, which is what I thought I had. Your tendencies to use the term “our” hobby seems very unwelcoming in this context and I think perhaps it may just be your wording but this is the kind of response that keeps younger or newer collectors from coming here and asking questions to gain the knowledge you think you hold over them.
  5. Thanks for the help guys. I was thinking it was MD since I never find anything “good” in my rol searches
  6. I mainly look for die chips and other more obvious “errors” and this just happened to look different so I figured I’d ask since the difference between HD and MD aren’t my strong point
  7. Hey all! I’m a long time casual collector, and recently started rol searching quarters. I’m not really good at detecting the difference between mechanical doubling and a real doubled die. That being said, I was hoping to get help determining the verdict On this 2021 Crossing the Delaware quarter reverse on “United States Of America”. Please let me know what you think! Brandon