Hello everyone, I'm new here.

[Jnovak702]

My name is Jason Novak and I'm from southern Illinois. I just recently joined the forum and also became a member. I've always been fascinated with the art on coins, but really just started collecting and searching for errors. The thrill of the hunt, and possibility of a new discovery, is definitely addicting!!

[MintErrors]

Welcome aboard.

There are some good members here to answer most of your coin related questions.

In my opinion, don't become too consumed about new discoveries... it's simply a name in lights that gets buried with the hundreds to thousands of listings out there.

The thrill of the hunt I can agree with. Though the major errors have become quite scarce since 2003. The US Mint added excellent Quality assurance and controls in place to reject and eventually destroy any errors from escaping the mint.

For varieties, in the early 1990s the US Mint effectively eliminated the re-punched mintmark by adding it to the master hubbing process, thus eliminating that human error.

If you are into varieties and errors there is a decent amount of them from the European countries, from before 1600 to modern day. Overdates and doubled dies seem widely scattered and major errors can be had from countries like India, Britain and a few others.

Happy hunting.

[Jnovak702]

Very interesting, thank you for the advice and direction. I always passed on the foreign coins, more so from just a lack of any knowledge of them.

[MintErrors]

Numista.com is a great source of information for world coins. I suggest looking g in the coin section. It lists most countries. It gives a lot of info. some of the coins have a break down of varieties available. Some coins even have photos of the varieties.

If you do a search there, it's best to pick a country and then search by the date. You can then scroll to the denomination action you'd like to research that is the only funky thing about numista....the search is odd.

Happy hunting.