Lincoln memorial cents are not the most exciting to collecting. It has the same obverse design as the previous 50 years of coinage, with a less thrilling, but I must agree, a more fitting reverse. Their mintages were sky-high and after 1982 the design was shallow, and the color seemed preposterous for a "copper" coin. But I found a little niche in the collecting work that made Lincoln memorials very fun and amazing to collect; their errors. Errors are created when the mint's vast systems, dies, and machines do not do exactly what they were intended to do resulting in wide variety of wrong planchets, off centers, clipped planchets, and increasingly more rare and hard to info errors after that.� � � � � � � � � �A double-struck coin is quite self explanatory. It is a coin that has been struck twice by the dies on the same planchet. This happens when the planchet is struck by the die, and instead of being properly ejected out of the next coin to come out, it moves very slightly creating another Lincoln's face next to the first one, on the same coin. Sometimes these errors are paired with others, and can be off-center on both strikes, clipped planchet( a clipped planchet paired with multiple strikes is something to be on the lookout for, this would be a huge find as this is extremely rare) and something even more rare than the previous one, wrong denominational planchet. Every one o these coins are different. Sure two can be struck multiple times, bu tit won't be in the same spot. This offers to add some spice and additional collection, like having the second strike at each hour on the clock. Harder to collect is a date an mintmark set of these coins, because as stated above, they often do not have either visible, but as long as one is there, you can find it. A double struck coin usually goes for around $25, but there are many above and below that Priceline. Ones that do show the full date an mintmark are priced accordingly, which those can be quite expensive. These errors can be found at coin show, coin shops, and if you can find one, an unopened bag of coins directly from the Mint that you can dump out and search through the bottom to find some beautiful uglies of the numismatic world. Double-struck coins give you more bang for your buck, two coins for the price of one, well maybe one-and-a-half.

Many of us have heard this question before, but what does entail. Is it our most valuable coin, the one that took eons to find, or the one that just makes you smile when you see it. Maybe it is not because the coin that it is your favorite, but perhaps the activities surrounding the day of when you got the coin matters too. My personal favorite, is quite a mixture of these. My 1991 Isle of Man proof Norwegian forest cat coin. This coin took me forever to find at a coin show. Although found easily online, I really wanted to have this coin in my hands before I purchased it. This coin is one troy ounce of pure silver minted at the Pobjoy Mint located on the Isle of Man in the center of Great Britain and Ireland. This commemorative coin was engraved by Raphael David Maklouf, an d I have to say he did a very nice job. Like all most coins minted around this part of the world, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth is on the obverse, with my favorite breed of cat on the reverse. This coin only has a mintage of 10,000, but since it is modern it is not as hard to find as something with that mintage made in the United States near the foundation of the country. This is quite a large coin, bigger than any Morgan or Peace dollar. I saved up a few weeks so I could get this coin, and I am very pleased I did. But just having the coin is not just the best part of this coin, it was the day. My family took me to a coin show about an hour away from where I live, and i was very excited. I brought the money I had saved up, hoping to find this coin there for the right price. Once I got there, they were giving out door prizes, and I was the first person to be called, winning a 1991 proof set to put into my collection. I was walking around for the first hour, looking closely at every dealer's table for this coin, when lo' and behold, towards the end of the first row of table it was there. The coin was shining brilliantly through the glass of the dealer's case and I had to get my hands on it. I asked if I could see it, and I held it under the scope of my loupe to see if there was anything wrong with the coin. Thankfully, I did not find anything wrong with the coin, and I asked the dealer how much it would cost. I was so happy when I heard the price was under what I was willing to spend. The fun was not yet over though. Afterwards, my family went out to eat. t was a very special day an da very special coin.

Let me start off by saying this is a great book for anybody interested in coins. It features the prices of American and Foreign currency in 1953. The price changes from then to now are amazing. I have to say if I went back in time with the money I have now I would be able to purchase a lot more than I can in today’s age. The book is well organized and is written so it is Esau to understand what prices are for which coin. It amazes me when I saw that the most expensive half dollar listed in the book was only $110 in five pages of the listed coins. �It is listed from lowest to highest denomination, so it is easy to find the coins you are looking for. The official title is for people with long winded breaths, but the title has no matter to the quality of the book. “America’s Laeding Coin Auctioneers Offer Another Outstanding Sale ( 157 th Mail Bid Auction) of Rare and Choice United States and Foreign Monies To be Sold June 26th 1953” is definitely a good book and a must read for coin collectors.�

Today is St. Patrick's day. A day for adults to drink beer and celebrate with food. Gold coins and chocolate with leprehauns is usually how people portray this holiday, an dif you do not have a pot of gold it doesn't seem right.� Along with this comes with the real history of St. Patrick the Irish Preist who converted many Druids to Christains after being arrested. St. Patrick is celebrated by many to commemorate his doings for Europe during the mid-4th century. Ireland was relatively stagnant at this point in history, and it is hard for us to iamgine a wolrd with a poulation� of only 190 million. Economics was still dominated mainly by trade. At the time of St. Patrick's life, Ireland and almost all of Europe was under Roman rule. Roman coins in this century were relatively advanced and now were almost perfectly circular, and the designs were clear and prominent featuring many different rulers an dkings of Rome at that time. In Ireland though, coinage was quite different. Ireland was still far back technology-wise and used Celtic Ring Money for a medium of tarde and barter. Birthed from the Bronze age, Celtic Ring Money was shped just like any rings today, only made out of precious metals pof teh times, made of Copper, Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Even at times base metals were plated with Gold. These rings were bland at times, but some were creatively designed with twisted metal and special engraving. Paired wuth trading slaves and cattle, you could get almost anything you wanted. dating these items are quite hard, as some speculate when they were created for teh Celts and used in this area. There is also no organic material so carbon dating is impossible. One can only rely on where these coins are found, if they are near ruins or buildings from which they already have a date. These rings are quite common for ancients "coins" and many people have found them just digging in their yards all around the British Isles and Ireland/ Northern Ireland. These rings make us realize how advanced our society really is. Today is more than just a day to drink, as without St. Patrick Christianity may not have spread as it did. Most poeple do not collect these coins, but maybe after St. Patrick's day you will.

With recent events we have begun to question everyone on this site, as our trust was breached on this site. This lousy period of a time is over and can we just appreciate what great hobby we have? This hobby brings in thousands of people from across the world together when nothing else would. Our coins brings us together and we love sharing our achievements, collections, coin roll hunts, and just plain old information. Our forums on this site allow us to ask and answer questions from each other. This site is one of the best on the internet at sharing information. What a great hobby!