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Does anyone know of a 1955 Reverse R variety Quarter?

gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
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Supposedly it was written up in Coin world years back. Any info appreciated.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,559 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not offhand, though it sounds like the kind of questionable die variety/error Frank Spadone might have listed in one of his catalogs. Anybody got one handy?
    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    There was once some excitement about a 1955 Type B quarter found in circulation. It was quite circulated and the consensus finally settled on an escaped proof as the culprit. It was mentioned in Coin World's Collectors' Clearinghouse.
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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    I found my 1974 6th edition of Spadone.
    The reverse "R" Quarter is listed for both 1955 and 1956. 1956 is illustrated. It is a die break from the loop of the 9 towards the rim. It really does look like a mirror image "R".
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    gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
    Do they list a price for the coin? Any error experts out there who can put a valuation on such an item>

    Dave
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,559 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I found my 1974 6th edition of Spadone.
    The reverse "R" Quarter is listed for both 1955 and 1956. 1956 is illustrated. It is a die break from the loop of the 9 towards the rim. It really does look like a mirror image "R". >>



    It is annoying that I can remember stuff like that, but can't remember why I walked into the other room just now......
    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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    gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
    it is just a senior moment...do they list it in other error books?
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    MWallaceMWallace Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It is annoying that I can remember stuff like that, but can't remember why I walked into the other room just now...... TD >>



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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    <<Do they list a price for the coin? Any error experts out there who can put a valuation on such an item>>>
    Spadone had 3 columns for prices - Good, Fine and Unc.
    These reverse R quarters, he only listed in fine as $2.75 each.
    A normal 1956 was listed as .90 in unc and a normal 1955 at 2.25 in unc. Again only the one grade listed.
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    MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I found my 1974 6th edition of Spadone.
    The reverse "R" Quarter is listed for both 1955 and 1956. 1956 is illustrated. It is a die break from the loop of the 9 towards the rim. It really does look like a mirror image "R". >>



    It is annoying that I can remember stuff like that, but can't remember why I walked into the other room just now......
    TD >>



    You are getting old and cranky- take your meds and think- life is always better on the other side of the 'L'...
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    gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
    And these were his prices in 1974? I wonder what they would fetch today. Basically it is a coin with an interesting die break, right? I tried searching for it on Coneca but no luck...
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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    <<Basically it is a coin with an interesting die break, right?>>

    Right.

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