Hello to all from a new forum member!

[Lady_K_Seeker]

I'm not a member of CONECA yet, but I hope to be soon. I've had an interest in currency in general and error coins in particular since before the internet existed, but no good way to pursue that interest until recently. I've been studying online and published resources and hunting through coin rolls since the beginning of this year. I've had the pleasure of finding and having a new double-die variety attributed, one with an extra line in the doorway of Monticello on a 2022-P Jefferson nickel, now known as 2022-P WDDR-003. Even so, I know that I still have A LOT to learn, and I look forward to continuing that learning process here!

[MintErrors]

Welcome aboard and Congratulations !
Arnold Margolis wrote an excellent error coin encyclopedia. The book is getting a tad bit hard to find, but it teaches people the way the US Mint used to operate and shows insight to the minting process and how errors are created. Its a bit dated especially pricing, but the majority of the book is still accurate.

We hope we can answer most of your coin questions. There are a decent amount of seasoned collectors and dealers in this forum, willing to offer their opinions.

A few tips:

• One coin per thread/post. Don't post your coin in another's post, make a new one, even if they are the same, and you would like an answer.
• Photos need to be less than 2mb each. You can upload 8 photos per initial post. You can reply to your own post if you need to add more photos.
• A full photo of the obverse and reverse of the coin helps people determine overall what's going on
• Close up of the affected area is good, but we need to zoom in and look for items that will help assess the issue.
• We prefer good crisp focused photos over blurry ones. The better the photo, the better chance at receiving a good answer.
• Too much lighting causes glare and renders the photo useless. A good balance of light makes a big difference. Lighting in my opinion is one of the hardest things to master, as it changes just about on every coin.
• Cropping coins is vital. Photos of coins that show 80% background and 20% coin do us no good. There are plenty of photograph editing programs out there that offer cropping. The symbol looks like a bent square. Usually all you have to do is draw a box around the photo of the area you want to keep and crop it.
• Photos around 800 pixels by 800 pixels is just at the edge of full size width of the forum. But it allows people to see photos well, if the photos are focused.
• Uploading photos here... there is a camera icon to the top left of the text box which toggles the upload photos buttons at the bottom left of the text box.

[Lady_K_Seeker]

Thank you for the welcome and the information!