High and Low in Wisconsin

mhammerman

Sure haven't seen any Wisconsin Quarters in circulation for a while. Is it just me? 2004 proof sets are well above issue price, is it the Wisconsin quarter? Did the press coverage of this quarter turn this into a big play? Did the high/low push everyone into keeping them, just in case it might be one of them? And that makes me question if there are there any other modern plays of this scale going on right now, like the marine commem got a lot of press and so did the jeffalo but I have seen th jeffs in circulation...hummmm. Things that make me wonder, but I'm easily amused.

Cameonut

Here in Michigan, I have never received a WI quarter from circulation. Perhaps you are right, everyone is hoarding them in hopes of a score.

The varieties are on the business strikes, not the proofs. So the rise in prices for the 2004 proof sets are not due to the varieties.

coinbuf

I just found my second Wisconsin eror in change this week. Earler this yr I had found the high leaf and this week I found the low leaf. This new one is a bit more nicked up than the first but it sure beats paying for them Living in AZ I guess the chances of finding one must have been better. As for seeing Wisconsin qtrs I see them every day in the change I collect.

Chris

darktone

I live in Wisconsin and they are pretty common here.

JoesMaName

Here in VT I see a fair share of the Wisconsin Qrts as much as any other - But I have yet to see a high or low leaf. And the Lewis and Clark nickels are nowhere to be seen - a few of the peace medal reverse a long time ago - then Nada. Haven't sen any of the others to even a baggy on from AZ :-)

coinkat

It is Barry Alvarez's last season as Head coach at Wisconsin... they will be hoarded....

cladking

The Wi quarters are a little less common here than they were a few months ago.

It is very difficult to draw useful information from such an observation alone with
new coins which are still being released. New coins tend to go wherever demand
for that denomination is highest and this can change rapidly leaving an area awash
in a certain coin but then with dwindling populations as they mix in with the coins of
that region. Those seen initially here were uncs but now they are mostly AU's but
much fewer in number. It's likely that better than 90% of these (D WI) have been
issued by the fed into circulation if the pattern is similar to what has prevailed in the
past. In time it will be possible to get a good feel for what was saved just by observ-
ing what wasn't but it's much too early for that.