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Accidental early release of 2019-W San Antonio Quarters

Heather Boyd
PCGS Senior Director of Marketing

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 23, 2019 8:58PM

    Saw his Bay auctions for the Mission Ws but he has taken them down.

  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,198 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did PCGS give the early finder any prize for finding these two quarters?

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Official release date of the ATB Missions TX quarter is 26 Aug. Technically these pre-release Missions Quarters do not exist.

    Whoever supplies the Wells Fargo in Grapevine made a “small” mistake in issuing these rolls of quarters. Wondering how often this has occurred.

  • mas3387mas3387 Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭
    edited August 24, 2019 4:10AM

    I had seen the listings and youtube video..
    Was hoping this would be the way it turned out.
    Should have placed them in the mail to PCGS morning of the 26th !!!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What a great surprise....Interesting label too. Cheers, RickO

  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Saw the press release and the guy on YouTube. Don't like the "accidental" release call on these... the next coins coming in will be labeled as "first discovery" which they are clearly not. Those labels need an asterisk on them! This guy was clearly the first to submit, not his fault the bank got them early. And it's quite likely more than one person got them early... would be very unlikely this guy was the only in the country... or even the only from that bank to get them already.

  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool, and this guy deserves the award as first submitted. Not his fault they were accidentally released.

  • TetromibiTetromibi Posts: 940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lucky for him he kept a few spares to sell. Can just send them to arrive Monday and get the first discovery as well as the accidental release coins as well as part (all?) of the prize.

    Complete win for him.

  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So they have not been "monetized"?

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @7Jaguars said:
    So they have not been "monetized"?

    They were released early by mistake. Of course, they have to be minted and ready in quantity by the release date.

    All that technical stuff should have been taken care of already.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • SweetpieSweetpie Posts: 465 ✭✭✭

    @Tetromibi said:
    Lucky for him he kept a few spares to sell. Can just send them to arrive Monday and get the first discovery as well as the accidental release coins as well as part (all?) of the prize.

    Complete win for him.

    He still may NOT gets the reward as per PCGS rules that these were submitted BEFORE the official release ( based on the postmark of the package).

  • TetromibiTetromibi Posts: 940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 24, 2019 8:50AM

    @Sweetpie said:

    @Tetromibi said:
    Lucky for him he kept a few spares to sell. Can just send them to arrive Monday and get the first discovery as well as the accidental release coins as well as part (all?) of the prize.

    Complete win for him.

    He still may NOT gets the reward as per PCGS rules that these were submitted BEFORE the official release ( based on the postmark of the package).

    He won't get the reward for this batch. He can still submit another couple (the ones he kept to sell) on Monday (on release date) that should be eligible.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Sweetpie said:

    @Tetromibi said:
    Lucky for him he kept a few spares to sell. Can just send them to arrive Monday and get the first discovery as well as the accidental release coins as well as part (all?) of the prize.

    Complete win for him.

    He still may NOT gets the reward as per PCGS rules that these were submitted BEFORE the official release ( based on the postmark of the package).

    please show in the rules where it says not eligible if submitted before the official release date.

    The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one.

  • TetromibiTetromibi Posts: 940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:

    @Sweetpie said:

    @Tetromibi said:
    Lucky for him he kept a few spares to sell. Can just send them to arrive Monday and get the first discovery as well as the accidental release coins as well as part (all?) of the prize.

    Complete win for him.

    He still may NOT gets the reward as per PCGS rules that these were submitted BEFORE the official release ( based on the postmark of the package).

    please show in the rules where it says not eligible if submitted before the official release date.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqvAjhaVDbA

    Just going by what the guy said PCGS told him. Skip to 1:21.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,411 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It happens

  • mas3387mas3387 Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭

    Yes, it happens... Shouldn't have BUT did. He should have waited untill the offical release date to send off for the reward.

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 25, 2019 7:36AM

    Exciting - Will be looking for them.

    So Cali Area - Coins & Currency
  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 7,807 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 25, 2019 8:01AM

    @mas3387 said:
    Yes, it happens... Shouldn't have BUT did. He should have waited untill the offical release date to send off for the reward.

    I think he has obviously something more rare than even first releases.
    Besides even if he could resist sending them in early he risks being smoked.
    I couldn't and wouldn't have waited, EVERYTHING else would've been in the backseat. Think about it...

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 25, 2019 8:52AM

    What’s done is done.

    Official release is tomorrow.

    Suspect that tomorrow or next day the official “first discovery” W Missions will be opened, graded, and press release by our host. Then the clock starts for “first week” and “early find” pedigrees.

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