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$1,000 Wisconsin Quarter
Wow! We were counting quarters yesterday and working on my sons’ collection of state quartes, and today I happened across this story via Fark.
To most people, that Wisconsin quarter jingling in our pockets or purses is worth exactly 25 cents.
But to coin collectors, it could be worth $500 or so if there is an extra leaf - or a flaw that looks like a leaf - on the cornstalk pictured on the tail side of the quarter.
The discovery has the coin-collecting world flipping. Rare variations can drive up the price that a coin fetches in the collectors market.
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The extra markings on the cornstalk - there actually are two types - were noticed in Tucson, Ariz., in December. So far, coins that bear it have been found mostly in that area. A few also have been reported around San Antonio, Texas.
No one is sure whether the markings, one of which looks like a leaf curved down and the other a leaf pointing up, were put on intentionally during a phase of production last fall or if a gouge or foreign object in the die caused the variation. The leaf-like markings appear only on coins minted in Denver, and they might have occurred after one of multiple die changes that take place as coins are being struck.
Here are the two variations that are “wrong.”
And here is a link to the correct one.
UPDATE: Fark has a photoshop contest on this…
http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2005/02/08/1000-wisconsin-quarter/trackback/
Thank you for opening a wonderfully new sight..I wish you the best of luck with your new venture.
Comment by Anonymous — July 10, 2005 @ 8:43 am
I THINK I HAVE THE QUARTER HOW CAN U HELP
Comment by JOHNITHA SMALL — March 31, 2008 @ 8:39 pm