First cherry in a while

dlmtorts

Received this coin in the mail today. Advertised on Ebay as a circulated coin - specifically not as a proof. Proof 1952 Superbird quarter. I knew I was getting a proof but the Superbird was an unexpected but pleasant surprise.

Meltdown

Don't you love it when one flys under the radar like that?

Now that you have it in hand, has it been circulated or was the seller just ignorant of what he had?

dlmtorts

It's not a circulated coin. I don't know why the seller thought it was. He said that it came from his father who had it in a plastic case for 50 years and told him that it was a proof coin. Then he said that that it really was not a proof coin. He posted pics that clearly showed that it was. In fact, he had about 10 coins up for sale all from the same couple of sets and all were proofs and all were described the same way. I bid on more but only won 2.

I was excited when I received it today and saw the S. Sometimes it pays to be lucky.

AUandAG

I gave up looking for them.....never found one on ebay, raw and unattributed.

bob

fcloud

Nice find!

DIMEMAN

Wow, nice pick!!!

STONE

Someone must know the relative portion of abundance of these...they just don't seem all that scarce!

1:3?

Cam40

It`s certainly a noteworthy cherrypick.
and, ya, you suck
congrats

panther

Funny thing is that I bought this one the same day that You did and it arrived yesterday . I checked it and sure enough a Superbird .

You can't see it in the pictures on Ebay and I wasn't buying it for a superbird.

Paid $78.00 for it . Since It was just graded and was wondering why the grader didn't inform the submitter it was a variety.

There is about a $250.00 difference in the prices realized for this coin.

panther

<< <i>Someone must know the relative portion of abundance of these...they just don't seem all that scarce!

1:3? >>




You are right STONE,

This is from CoinFacts:

It is believed that there were about 15,000 proof Washington quarters struck with the Superbird variety. Therefore, probably about about 1/5 of the entire mintage of 1952 proof quarters display the Superbird design.

In 1984 Val J. Webb wrote a book on Proof Cameo coins where it mentioned the nickname of the Superbird variety and this is how and when the variety first became widely recognized.

Popularity: Amongst Washington quarter variety collectors, this is a very desirable variety, especially in extremely high grades or coins which display a cameo or deep cameo appearance.

Condition: The 1952 Superbird variety is mostly common in grades of PR65 and PR66. In grades of PR67 it becomes very challenging to locate and probably less than 400 coins of this variety exist in PR67 or higher.