Posted on 02/08/2005 7:42:33 AM PST by wjersey
MILWAUKEE -- Some Wisconsin quarters issued last year are turning out to be worth considerably more than 25 cents.
Coin collectors say nickels with two variations in the design of a cornstalk on the back of the coin have been spotted at Tucson, Ariz., and San Antonio, Texas.
Rick Snow, who owns Eagle Eye Rare Coins Inc. in Tucson, said he started paying $50 each for the quarters when he learned of them.
"As soon as word got out about that, the prices escalated," Snow said.
On Monday, he was offering a set of three Wisconsin quarters - the normal one, one with a leaf marking pointed up and a third with the marking pointed down - for as much as $1,099. Individual coins with the variations were selling for $500 to $600, depending on condition, he said.
The U.S. Mint, which produced 453 million Wisconsin quarters for its state coin series, is trying to determine how the differences came about.
"Throughout history, there have been some instances of variations - very, very rare instances," said U.S. Mint spokesman Mike White. "If there is any kind of situation like this, we just take a very close look at the process and all the different steps."
Nickels or quarters? Unnngh, sloppy writing.
Quarter, nickel, what's the difference??
Mint errors can become very valuable.
$0.20 is the difference.
It depends on what your definition of "flawed" is. If a person fell into a coma in 1963 and woke up today, he'd be pretty old, but he'd also remember when quarters were silver and passing slugs would land a person in jail for counterfeitting. He would condemn not just some few items out of the lot because the picture on it didn't come out right, but all that spills out of the mint today, as flawed, as entirely counterfeit because it contains no silver. He'd be a different kind of person and he'd wonder what in hell happened to us, to fix in our minds the idea that counterfeit money, is the real money, and that money not counterfeit is an anachronism that belongs in antique coin shops, and that counterfeit money is money not produced by the government authorized counterfeitters.
Anyone have photos of what the normal and variant versions look like?
Heads up!
Semper Fi
Of course the hundred dollar bill also contained a hundred dollars worth of paper in 1963 ...
We're talking cheese heads!
For them, the difference is
about a week's pay!
Watch it, buster! I'll stick up for my neighbors in Wisconsin. They are great people and it is a very scenic state.
Flawed Wisconsin quarter is fetching prices above $500
Correct coin
the two flaws...
Prior to 1967, silver quarters were "slugs" as the silver was worth less than face value.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
"Vacation" means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings and funerals).
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.
You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.
There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You refer to the Packers as "we."
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.
You consider Minneapolis exotic.
You know how to polka.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
Down South to you means Illinois.
A brat is something you eat.
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
You go out to fish fry every Friday.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find minus twenty degrees "a little chilly."
You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
This certifies that
there have been deposited in
the Treasury of the United States
One Hundred Dollars in Gold Coin
Payable to the Bearer On Demand
The pic above is not 1963 but the principle is the same. The gold and the promise of delivery of the gold is what made the hundred dollar bill of 1963 worth something. Not the paper.
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