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1870-S Quarter surfaces in old time collection!

291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,583 ✭✭✭✭✭
Come on. It's April 1. You should know better than to look at a post like this.image
All glory is fleeting.

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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Crap. At least you could have stretched it by stating that someone found and dynamited the cornerstone of the old SanFran Mint.

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Maybe your fooling us by saying it's an April fools joke and it's really true.

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  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,533 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK, you got me on that one. My favorite coin to find unattributed is the 1870-S quarter, known to have been produced but unknown in any collection.

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  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720
    The 1870-S Seated Quarter has the same reverse as the 1866-S, 1867-S, and 1869-S Quarter, with a die cut through the lower loop of the S.
    The reeding count is the same as well as the earlier dates, at 110 reeds.
    It's a R-8, possibly unique.
    Does anyone remember the recent thread about the real valuable coin that only a small handful of people in the hobby knows about?

    Ray
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,622 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What about the 1870-S cent, two cents, three cents silver, three cents nickel and five cents nickel made for the Emperor Norton I Presentation Set?
    TD
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  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720
    Oh, one other note. This is a lower grade circulated piece, and not the possible example that some people in the hobby believe may be in a time capsule in the cornerstone of the old mint in San Francisco.
    That's the why of my R-8, possibly unique statement.

    Ray
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The 1870-S Seated Quarter has the same reverse as the 1866-S, 1867-S, and 1869-S Quarter, with a die cut through the lower loop of the S.
    The reeding count is the same as well as the earlier dates, at 110 reeds.
    It's a R-8, possibly unique.
    Does anyone remember the recent thread about the real valuable coin that only a small handful of people in the hobby knows about? Ray >>


    No. Please elaborate. Are you referring to the 1942 steel cent?

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