Poll: Do you check Wisconsin quarters received in change for the extra leaf (even modern bashers)?

Longacre

Personally, I don't actively collect the moderns (but I would not consider myself to be a modern basher). However, every time I get a Wisconsin quarter in change, I look at the dang thing to see if it has an extra leaf. I figure that if there could be a well-managed promotion surrounding these Faux Rarities, then I can at least jump on the bandwagon, too, if I find one in circulation.

Do you check your Wisconsin quarters for the coveted Extra Leaf? Please respond to the poll, and it would also be interesting to hear if you consider yourself to be a modern basher and you still check for this excessively rare variety.

ricko

No.... not interested in them.... Cheers, RickO

Snowman24

i do but the chances of finding a "D" mintmark quarter is very slim in upstate NY

last year i got a box of quarters from the bank and found only 1 Wisconsin "D"

the odds are against me up where the snow flies

Snowman

Longacre

<< <i>i do but the chances of finding a "D" mintmark quarter is very slim in upstate NY

last year i got a box of quarters from the bank and found only 1 Wisconsin "D"

the odds are against me up where the snow flies

Snowman >>



Goes to show you how closely I monitor the moderns. I didn't even know the extra leaf quarters only appeared on D mint coins.

messydesk

I so rarely spend cash that it takes months for my coffee mug o' change to fill up at home. I always check my quarters to see if I need any for the household quarter folders, so I'd notice the extra leaf WI, anyway.

lasvegasteddy

yup...they're on my look list...kinda low on my list though

cladking

Most modern varieties get a very wide distribution before they are
reported. This means they're out there getting chewed up, lost, and
mixed in with all the other coins long before anyone is even looking
for them.

Since modern coins aren't saved in large numbers like the old coins
this might mean not a single example is known in unc and there can
be thousands, even millions, in circulation. Scarce varieties will har-
dly even be known in circulated condition since not many people are
looking for them.

The point is simply there can be thousands of very desirable coins of
other sorts in circulation and you might find something rare. It's more
likely to find these rare coins than the relatively common WI coins.

I believe these Wisconsin types are very important coins and will be
seen to be increasingly important as time goes by. I do look for them
but they're on the bottom of my list as well.

OPA

I love "moderns" & check out every WI quarter...with no luck so far. Not checking them out is like "looking a gift horse in the mouth" & not taking advantage of your potential good fortune.

OKbustchaser

First, I would have to check to see if it were a Wisconsin quarter. Since I don't do that,,,my answer is no.

Before anyone starts; no modern bashing involved...simply a complete lack of interest on my part in state quarters.

tahoe98

..........i check all my change.............old habit from hobby start

kranky

I check every single one, plus our cafeteria owner pulls them out of his cash drawer and saves them for me (in return, I give him all the bicentennial quarters I run across, which isn't too many these days).

I'd guess by now I have gone through 200-300. I doubt I'll ever find one, but I'll not let one just slip through my fingers!

LeeBone

<< <i>..........i check all my change.............old habit from hobby start >>



Yup...what he said...

ambro51

.....I never look. Only change I look at, I flip old looking pennies over and look for wheat ears.

HIGHLOWLEAVES

Do I check my Wisconsin quarters received in change for the Extra Leaf ?? I live between San Antonio and Austin, Tx. This is exactly where the Texas Batch was released in late 2004 and early 2005. IMHO, if you travel to smaller towns in my area and ask for several $100s of used quarters, you stand a chance of finding a more common Low Leaf quarter. By now, many people have forgotten about these scarce coins. Local dealers are not being offered any anymore. They have dried up; but a few maybe left in change if you look in the original areas. I have found only 3 low leafs in looking at my change and rolls over the last 3 years. The lack of circulated extra leaf coins here in the Texas area tells me that the mintage is very low and most examples were found in BU rolls early on. I do not like hard economic times but might more coins left on dresser tops or piggy banks be put back in change to say pay the light bill in today's difficult times ? Mark.

pitboss

I always check but have never found any. All the high and low leaf's I have have been purchased on e bay.

19Lyds

Sure why not?

It is an established variety that has more value cuirculated than a 1999-D Tennessee uncirculated!

garsmith

No, then just go in the coin jar with the other quarters, nickels and dimes

STONE

Not anymore, but I used to!

BlackBeard

I check for those and the 1943 copper cent, which I have about the same chance of finding here in Florida.