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[Ericka]

Hello everybody

[mustbebob]

Hi Ericka. Welcome to the forum.

[MintErrors]

Welcome to the Forum Ericka.

What I can immediately offer are a few sites to visit as you wish. These are great reference sites to help you along the way. There are others as well. All in due time. = )

1. John Wexler's educational site about coins. https://doubleddie.com

I will highlight just a few pages he has. One is about "worthless" doubling and it can be the hardest thing to master. John W offers a comarision between a worthless doubling and an actual doubled die. On the doubled dies, notice how the doubling appears to be thicker. It may also have a cookie cutter style line where the doubled die impression overlapped.

Worthless doubling
https://doubleddie.com/144801.html

Actual doubled die listings
https://doubleddie.com/228401.html

Re-punched mint marks
https://doubleddie.com/307764.html

John Wexler does recognize CONECA listings and tries to coordinate his numbering system with CONECA. John does not list all of his findings. However, he has a wide selection of coin types with some pretty good examples.


2. James Wiles attribution site http://varietyvista.com

James W recently handed over the attribution duties back to CONECA. The variety vista site has a lot of examples to look through, categorized by coin type, then by variety (doubled die obverse, doubled die reverse or re-punched mint marks) and finally by year. It is a simple drill down system and once you are at the year, it lists most varieties that CONECA recognizes.

3. Brian's variety coins https://www2.briansvarietycoins.com//.

Brian offers attribution photos at the top menu bar under Nickel doubled die listings. He also has coins for sale to the left menu bar. Both areas offer some good coin photography to look over and potentially find a match.

It looks like you have posting down pretty well.

A suggestion I can offer is when you post a coin, make sure it is a single coin per post. Try to post varieties (DDO, DDR, RPM's) under the varieties forum and any potential error coins (off-center, lamination, strike-thru's, etc under the error forum.

It is best to get the clearest photograph of the obverse of the coin and the reverse. Some like to get as close to the coin, and it often blurs the photograph, and the attributers or fellow error coin collectors cannot determine what you are seeing.

Lighting is the #1 pain in my opinion. Too much light will set off glare and make it impossible to see. Too little and the photo is too dark to see the depth of the coin to make an educated guess what the coin is. If your having difficulties with lighting, simply drape a sheer white cloth around the coin or over a light. Take your photos and immediately remove the cloth from the light.

I see Bob P. a CONECA staff member stopped by and offered his greetings as well. Feel free to ask questions, some one should respond back usually within a day or two, some times sooner.

If you have coin related questions, please ask. Many of the staff members here are always willing to answer questions, or point you to a reference that can explain that question.

Welcome aboard. We hope you enjoy your experience here.