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CONECA (pronounced: CŌ´NECA) is a national numismatic organization devoted to the education of error and variety coin collectors. CONECA focuses on many error and variety specialties, including doubled dies, Repunched mintmarks, multiple errors, clips, double strikes, off-metals and off-centers—just to name a few. In addition to its website, CONECA publishes an educational journal, The Errorscope, which is printed and mailed to members bimonthly. CONECA offers a lending library, examination, listing and attribution services; it holds annual meetings at major conventions (referred to as Errorama) around the country.

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    Hello - New Here.

    Hello everyone! I am very excited to be here. I am hoping to keep learning a lot. I started my penny collection about 9 yrs ago, when my then 6 yr old daughter noticed a "funny" penny. It was a wheat penny of course and it made me dig up what was left of my grandmother's penny collection. She loved coins and had a pretty good collection that was stolen the night she was kidnapped and left hogtied in the desert. The guy came for her coin collection and her car - and yes, she did survive and lived for almost a yr after her kidnapping.

    Sadly, all that was left of my grandmother's collection (penny's and silver coins) was about 10 wheat pennies but I have worked on it and am trying to finish it up. Of course the TEENS are hard to come by - but I did find a 1909 VDB and I have a BEAUTIFUL steel penny I have thought about having graded. I literally have thousands of coins to go through as friends and family give them to me... and I wait until I have a huge collection to dig through to "work on it", which is what I am doing now.

    I am looking forward to learning from you all and meeting like-minded coin enthusiasts!
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    Welcome to the forum. We are glad you're here. We will be happy to help you as you go through your growing collection. We can save you lots of money if you are able to post some pics. For example, the steel penny may be nice looking but not worth having graded. Let us know how we can help.
    Bob Piazza
    Lincoln Cent Attributer
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      Thank you Bob. From what I have studied, I believe my stele penny has been plated. It is too perfect and heavy around the date and lettering.

      I appreciate your willingness to teach - as there is so much to learn! Thank you!

      Have a great one~
      Lea

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        I believe my stele penny has been plated
        Millions of 1943 cents were reprocessed, so it is not surprising that your coin looks plated. There is a good chance it is.
        Bob Piazza
        Lincoln Cent Attributer

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