Thank You Rick Snow and the PCGS forums
clackamas
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Rick, Thanks for being part of this community and sharing your information. The early dissemination of information, from you, about the WI quarters enabled me, and I am sure many others, to make a tidy sum by buying a roll of quarters on ebay that yielded 7 of the errors. I also purchased 10 $25 bags from the mint and a $250 bag that sold for nice profits. Thanks, I appreciate it.
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New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
This auction for a mint bag of quarters states:
There have been several error coins found in the Denver Mint bags.
This is the first I have heard of this . . . unless maybe I missed something? I also have been following the story.
eBay auction for mint bag of quarters at $71 and counting....
Clackamas, I went to bed last night after reading your post, and was trying to remember, when you first posted that you had gone ahead and won that roll just to see, what it was in the auction listing that made you think it was worth a try. The seller must be kicking him/her self, if they read this.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
<< <i>Neptune, that's not what Rick says, so can you trust the seller? Have you gotten your order?
Clackamas, I went to bed last night after reading your post, and was trying to remember, when you first posted that you had gone ahead and won that roll just to see, what it was in the auction listing that made you think it was worth a try. The seller must be kicking him/her self, if they read this. >>
I don't know if he is, he sold a $10 roll of quarters for $400. You have to be happy about that anyway you slice it. Sure he left some on the table but it is not like he sold them for $50.
"what it was in the auction listing that made you think it was worth a try." The two end roll coins were upper leaf errors so I had a sure thing on at least two of the errors and I knew htese werre more rare, at least so far and figured if the end roll coins were both errors there had to be more. The sets were going for $125 at the time so it was a little gamble on my part but my down side was not the full $400 for the roll.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
<< <i>while on the subject - just curious, if this is true or not:
This auction for a mint bag of quarters states:
There have been several error coins found in the Denver Mint bags.
This is the first I have heard of this . . . unless maybe I missed something? I also have been following the story.
eBay auction for mint bag of quarters at $71 and counting.... >>
Ask the seller to cite a reputable source for that statement. I bought a $25.00 bag of Wisconcheese D-mint quarters from The Mint the day before they went off sale, got them last week, thought "Hmm.. what are the chances, should I open it or leave it in the box and sell it??.."
I decided to open it.
One by one I went through the 100 coins, picking each one up by the edge, and glancing at the ear of corn.. the cow kept staring back at me as though she was getting ready to laugh..
What did I find??.. I found 100 perfectly normal, regular, no Variety quarters. Pocket change.
From everything I've read, and it's been a considerable amount of reading, these leafy Varieties are not being found in the two-roll sets from The Mint, or in the mini-bags.. they were found in fed or brinks wrapped rolls at banks in Tucson, AZ. And a few in San Antonio.
I've seen sellers in Tucson hyping the two roll sets from The Mint because even though they came from The Mint, the seller LIVES in Tucson..
I've watched a couple hundred of these leafy auctions close, watched the prices go up nearly ten-fold in two weeks, the majority of the sellers have very little or no feedback, steal each others' descriptions, provide a tiny, crappy picture, or use one of the CW cover pictures.. well excuse me, but that dog don't hunt. They could be perfectly honest, legitimate sellers who simply don't know how to do a proper auction presentation, or work a camera.. I Shirley wouldn't throw hundreds of dollars at one of those auctions, even if I could see into the future and find out these leafy coins are going for two grand in a couple weeks.. I want to SEE exatly the coin that I'm buying.. not a generic picture ripped off someone else's auction or out of a magazine..
That's why I bought a couple of them already slabbed from Rick Snow.. and even at his prices, which are far below eBay prices, I had to take a deep breath and ponder if it was the right thing to do.. looks like it was the right thing to do..
Harv
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
1 21891380 2004-D WI 25C Wisconsin USA MS65
2 21891381 2004-D WI 25C WI Extra Leaf Low USA MS65
3 21891382 2004-D WI 25C WI Extra Leaf High USA MS65
hmmmmfph!
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