2004 Wisconsin D quarter variety

coop · Expert Member

I've been through several rolls and nothing yet. Not even close. It may have been a die scratch on a couple of different dies and the number could be few of them even out there. So far nothing yet here.

smed · Senior Member

As usual I don't have the "current" issue of CW, but it sounds like the mint is once again talking out of their collective backsideholes. I can't remember the last time something "happened" and they admitted to it "happening".

They look like intentional elements, not die scratches or anything else, to me.

Bob P · Site Admin

Is there an option C anywhere? Gouges seem possible, but the placement seems odd...especially since we are dealing with two different "extra leaf' designs here. The "rubbing out aspect" can be better determined with die progression. If we can see a late(r) die state of the same two design elements, it might do some explaining.

Robert · Senior Member

Just when I thought the whole Wisconsin quarter thing would start settling down I read the Jan 31 CW.

Page 3 says that the "Extra Leaf High" and "Extra Leaf Low" will both be recognized in the next Red Book. Might be just a mention or it might be a line listing. But it will be in there.

FWIW, the original finders aren't finding them any more, and the local Tucson TV stations have picked up the story so people are looking for the coins. Others are finding them though.

The "Extra Leaf High" variety appears to be 3x as scarce asl the Low variety.

The story also gives clarification of the Mint's story. "It is most likely caused by the foreign, hard particle object being imbedded into the surface of the die that eventually transferred back to a coin, creating a crater on the die surface."

I don't think everyone buys that, but there you are.

joeyuk · Advanced Member

Also the major third party grading companies are recognizing them. I have seen the varieties listed in the PCGS population report and NGC slabs are on e-bay already. They are making a three coin slab for high and low leaf as well as the normal d quarter.

I bought a raw set and may pick up a PCGS set.

coppercoins · Site Admin

And people are saying varieties are unimportant flyspeck collecting? I still hear of people talking down varieties saying people have nothing better to do than put pocket change under high powered microscopes and invent values for worthless coins...

And here we have the numismatic community in a frenzy over little lines on the back of "common" quarters.

I guess nobody needs to wonder why I'm doing what I do. It is indeed the new age of coin collecting, and everyone here is riding the elevator from the bottom.

JRocco · Veteran Member

That is so true Chuck. I would like see some of those "quarter weenies" LOL take a close look at that 68D doubled reverse you just found- now THAT is a variety.

Imahik · Member

I was wondering if these things would turn up in rolls of Wisconsin quarters. I saw that there were a few 3-quarters, D-mint sets selling on eBay, but the only place I heard of availability was at the FUN coin show in Florida. I’d really like to have those things too.

cladking · Member

GarryN · Expert Member

This is what the extra Leaf variety coins have come to. Check this out. I will post this in the chat room too.

http://www.indiancent.com/market/wiquarter.htm

smed · Senior Member

Not surprising, other than coming from THE ILLUSTRIOUS MISTER INDIAN HEAD CENT HIMSELF - IF I DIDN'T SAY IT'S A VARIETY IT AIN'T POOP LET ME BLOW MY OWN HORN *TOOT*TOOT*

I still don't have anything nice to say about Mr Potter re: type II lincoln reverse 1992-2000.

coppercoins · Site Admin

smed · Senior Member

Don't get me wrong Chuck, it's not what they charge (just like TV hawkers) that gets me, it's their presentation.

Too bad so many people don't do a bit of research on their own and believe every word a less-than-honest salesman says.

Snow is so full of himself it's surprising he's not blown up like a puffer fish, and (it seems to me) Potter will say anything to get your money.

GarryN · Expert Member

Rick is selling these on Ebay too and last time I looked he managed to get a bid of over $1000 for one of the holders that has all three varieties in MS67.

joeyuk · Advanced Member

This is just crazy. 3 coin sets are going for over $1,000 raw. Roll sets sealed sets from the mint I saw sold 10 sealed sets for $1,400. This hit the national media yesterday. Alot of people will be soured if/when things come back to Earth. Joe