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BBrown75

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  1. On 5/3/2023 at 6:11 PM, VKurtB said:

    Nor does anyone else, which brings up the question of why people do it. True doubled dies are nearly obsolete due to improved die making technology. YouTube video makers have rotted people’s minds with pure BS. Some people even do it here. 

    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. On 4/29/2023 at 9:14 AM, Jason Abshier said:

    @BBrown75 like I said I wasn’t singling you out you made a Great post .. apparently on daily basic this same type of doubling is talked on daily basic here new collectors posting on here instead of reading old post on this subject such as yours is a good explanation and example worth reading, the post a picture of what they believe is doubling we give a response it’s not answer they want to hear we never see or hear from them again  … instead a lot of them come on here wants an easy answer take no mind to even learn what the hobby is really about …

    I may have sounded blunt or little conservative about the subject I won’t apologize for that and I’m not the only member on here that talk like that … I mean no offense to anyone when I say “OUR” Hobby that’s “ALL” of us me, you , everyone on this forums From beginners , Novice to advance collectors … it’s is indeed Our hobby we love to do 

    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. On 4/29/2023 at 4:18 AM, Jason Abshier said:

    @BBrown75 I’m not picking you out so don’t take it wrong …you been collecting casually … But I often wonder what sparks a newer collectors trying to get into our coin collecting hobby why they automatically start off trying to spot error coins I been noticing it a lot lately on here? Error coins are more for someone who been in hobby for long time advance collector who researches and reads up a lot books on error error coins they basically devote a lot of their time collecting error coins. 

    Now a days with modern technology and better machinery at the mint the errors are very very minor not even worth mentioning… I don’t know if new collectors are getting wrong message from some YouTube videos made by a guy who has no knowledge about our numismatic collecting hobby making up a bunch wacky misinformation and claims that error coins are pulling in a lot money and so on I’ve heard these rumors I don’t watch YouTube about coin collecting …

    I myself rarely dabbled into error coins I never found them that fascinated but I’ve read up on it enough to know what it’s somewhat about … Our hobby not about getting rich off error coins I think the wrong message is being spread to newer collectors our hobby is more of passion sometimes turns into a obsession it’s about collecting and preserving and gaining knowledge and for some of us we spend far far far more money acquiring coins for our collection than we gain back 

    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. On 4/28/2023 at 4:31 PM, Coinbuf said:

    Obvious machine doubling from what I see in the photos.   Please don't take this as harsh and I'm not judging you, but what is the point of searching rolls if you cannot identify what you see or "find".

    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

     

  6. 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

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