I don't know if some newbies are still doing this today, if you are you'd better stop right now. Many new coins can be easily mined through a single CPU or GPU but 90% of them are trash coins, you need to understand how important use cases are.
In the old days, three to four years back I was so obsessed with new coins simply because they are easy to acquire, mining them is easy and difficulty are low, this got me blind so I started mining coins without getting into good research first, I ended up with coins like
1. MarketCash
2. NiobioCash
3. Worktips
4. Spotme
5. Gadcoin
And so on.....
These coins are all dead or useless right now, few are trading back then but I was too dump to sell and buy better coins.
Today I asked myself why did I do that back then, I guess it's because I never knew the difference of high quality projects and why some coins make it to top 100, If you are reading this make this your targets
The importance of real use case
Damn I'm sorry for your loss, there are many new coins that came out in 2018 that change the life of many miners at that time, electroneum coin was among those coins then, it shows you have no knowledge about what makes a coin better than the rest, I was pretty easy to detect electroneum that time but I wish you a the best