Happy Birthday !! Wisconsin Extra Leaf Quarters

HIGHLOWLEAVES

Time really flies, doesn't it !! This Thanksgiving Weekend is the "Ninth" Anniversary of these variety statehood quarter's beginninig. As prices have headed South over the years, the PCGS/NGC Pops haven't increased very much. Over these 9 years, the two primary grading companies have graded only 7,627 Highs and only 14,418 Lows. The populations will always include many regrades. Happy Thanksgiving To All and Happy Birthday to the special Wisconsin quarters. Mark.

Dentuck

I remember I was visiting with Q. David Bowers at the American Numismatic Rarities
booth (at the January 2005 FUN show) when an excited collector brought several
of the Wisconsin quarters over to show him. Dave immediately shared in the
excitement as he examined the coins, and he insisted that we brainstorm
names for the varieties, in case we decided to put them in the Red Book.
After a couple minutes of back-and-forth we came up with "Extra Leaf High"
and "Extra Leaf Low." David Hall happened to be passing by just at that
moment, and QDB waved him over to talk about the coins. I was about two
weeks into my new position as publisher at Whitman, so you can imagine
how my head was spinning!

pitboss

The extra leafs are a great coin and I still have 15 of them in my collection.

It was a great ride up and hopefully they will be a great coin in the future.

cladking

<< <i>Time really flies, doesn't it !! >>



Indeed!!!

In all these years I'm not sure I've even had 100 Denver WI's to even check for the leaves.

Their day will come. And when it does it will seem like time bounds and leaps while it's not flying.

coinsarefun

<< <i>I remember I was visiting with Q. David Bowers at the American Numismatic Rarities
booth (at the January 2005 FUN show) when an excited collector brought several
of the Wisconsin quarters over to show him. Dave immediately shared in the
excitement as he examined the coins, and he insisted that we brainstorm
names for the varieties, in case we decided to put them in the Red Book.
After a couple minutes of back-and-forth we came up with "Extra Leaf High"
and "Extra Leaf Low." David Hall happened to be passing by just at that
moment, and QDB waved him over to talk about the coins. I was about two
weeks into my new position as publisher at Whitman, so you can imagine
how my head was spinning! >>








Great story, thanks for posting it!!!

HIGHLOWLEAVES

Thanks Dennis for telling us about your neat experience at the 2005 FUN show with the newly discovered WI Extra Leaf quarters.

TwoSides2aCoin

I remember reading about them here. I made a mad rush and bought a dozen or so on ebay when they first came out. Then I submitted them to PCGS.
Listed an MS 67 grade on ebay when there was no price guide for that grade, nor record. It sold for $867 on ebay to a forum member, IIRC. The very next day the price guide showed a value of $2500.

Coins are fun. It's a great hobby and business. Hard to believe 9 years have passed. Those are neat collectibles. Bought raw, submitted them and then "flipped them". So it goes. The life of the flipper. What a nice break (er gouge), in the middle of the SHQ program.

UtahCoin

Bought some, flipped some. Did hang on to a NGC Bob Ford set in 66. Kept a couple of PCGS examples in 66 too as I recall. I still have several 1995 1c DDO Lincolns in the 1995 PCI old holders.

HIGHLOWLEAVES

From what some San Antonio, Tx coin dealers say, "Few examples " are coming into their shops and being offered for sale. This is expected after they have been distributed by the Federal Reserve over 9 years ago. Over these many years, many serious error/variety/statehood quarter collectors have acquired them. Happy Thanksgiving weekend !! Mark.

EagleEye

I remember I was visiting with Q. David Bowers at the American Numismatic Rarities booth (at the January 2005 FUN show) when an excited collector brought several of the Wisconsin quarters over to show him. Dave immediately shared in the excitement as he examined the coins, and he insisted that we brainstorm names for the varieties, in case we decided to put them in the Red Book. After a couple minutes of back-and-forth we came up with "Extra Leaf High" and "Extra Leaf Low." David Hall happened to be passing by just at that moment, and QDB waved him over to talk about the coins. I was about two weeks into my new position as publisher at Whitman, so you can imagine how my head was spinning!

Ha! That excited collector was me!

Dentuck

<< <i> I remember I was visiting with Q. David Bowers at the American Numismatic Rarities booth (at the January 2005 FUN show) when an excited collector brought several of the Wisconsin quarters over to show him. Dave immediately shared in the excitement as he examined the coins, and he insisted that we brainstorm names for the varieties, in case we decided to put them in the Red Book. After a couple minutes of back-and-forth we came up with "Extra Leaf High" and "Extra Leaf Low." David Hall happened to be passing by just at that moment, and QDB waved him over to talk about the coins. I was about two weeks into my new position as publisher at Whitman, so you can imagine how my head was spinning!

Ha! That excited collector was me! >>




LOL. I thought so, Rick, but couldn't remember for sure! Dave was so excited and impressed once he had a chance to
look at the coins under a loupe.

HIGHLOWLEAVES

Dennis and Rick, thank you for sharing the happenings of the early WI extra leaf events at the 2005 FUN Show. Wasn't Bob Ford at the Spring Long Beach show in 2005 with Rick Snow? The years are taking their toll !! Mark.

EagleEye

Bob did attend the Long beach show. His nickname was "nickel-neck" for the thousands of nickels he would go through. Those who had a chance to meet him while he was alive are better for it. He was a great guy, and I am glad he made the discovery. I turned him on to variety collecting back in 1990.

Jcarney

I got my set from Rick back in the day. Love these coins. I believe they are as important to the State Quarter series as the '55 DDO is to the Lincoln series.

HIGHLOWLEAVES

I remember when I heard that someone in AZ had discovered a variety of the WI D statehood quarter in late 2004. Thank you Bob Ford for sharing your important discovery with the numismatic world. Bob was truly a collector's friend. I didn't get excited about the two varieties until people here in the San Antonio, Tx area started finding them. Point of interest, w/o taking anything away from Bob Ford, might the extra leaf coins have been delivered to the San Antonio Branch of the Fed and were in this area before or at about the same time as they were dispatched to Tucson? I'm only asking !! Happy Thanksgiving Weekend, Mark.

cladking

<< <i>I remember when I heard that someone in AZ had discovered a variety of the WI D statehood quarter in late 2004. Thank you Bob Ford for sharing your important discovery with the numismatic world. Bob was truly a collector's friend. I didn't get excited about the two varieties until people here in the San Antonio, Tx area started finding them. Point of interest, w/o taking anything away from Bob Ford, might the extra leaf coins have been delivered to the San Antonio Branch of the Fed and were in this area before or at about the same time as they were dispatched to Tucson? I'm only asking !! >>



For some other modern varieties irt would have been quite possible for the coins to circulate
without getting noticed. It's believed the '82-NMM dime could have been circulating around
Sandusky for months while most were still sitting in the Cedar Park amusement park. But the
states quarters were getting looked at by millions and millions of states quarter collectors and,
I believe it would have been noticed very soon after they hit circulation.

mrdq

I remember being one of the skeptics on this coin back in the beginning. I think I said that the prices were WAY out of whack and in 10 years i'd buy one off ebay and give it away here.. I can't find that post though. If you can find it i'd like to know what the deal was. It seems like it's getting close to maturing.

HIGHLOWLEAVES

Hi MR DQ, the idea of these variety quarters coming to maturity after 9 years makes a lot of sense to me. At the current Ebay prices, an educated WI extra leaf quarter buyer can come away buying a nice PCGS certified example at almost a giveaway price compared to 2005-2006 Ebay lofty prices. I realize that I am getting older (maturing) each year just like these scarce coins. Mark.

pitboss

They tell me old is just a state of mind Mark but I lost my mine long ago so I am not sure if this is true or not.

cladking

<< <i>Hi MR DQ, the idea of these variety quarters coming to maturity after 9 years makes a lot of sense to me. At the current Ebay prices, an educated WI extra leaf quarter buyer can come away buying a nice PCGS certified example at almost a giveaway price compared to 2005-2006 Ebay lofty prices. I realize that I am getting older (maturing) each year just like these scarce coins. >>



Nine years to an adult is nothing but a quantitative change; we just get older and wiser.

Nine years to many of the people who were collecting states quarters in 2005 is the difference
between night and day. They were children and most could only dream of owning the Wisconsin
varieties. Now they're adults and have jobs and families. As they drift back into the hobby they
will now have the finances to afford the coins so the demand will increase substantially over the
next decade and beyond.

HIGHLOWLEAVES

Hi Cladking, I appreciate and agree with your long term insight about the Extra Leaf quarters. It seems like today, if the modern coin isn't made of gold or silver or platinum, then it is worthless to most coin collectors. What a shame !!

cladking

<< <i>It seems like today, if the modern coin isn't made of gold or silver or platinum, then it is worthless to most coin collectors. What a shame !! >>



No pun intended but there's a whole lot of change coming. It's not just that there will
be nearly 300 different quarters in circulation in ten years but there will be a new demo-
graphic composed of people who didn't grow up hating clad. By that time even a 1965
quarter will be getting a little tough above VG condition and the half billion plus survivors
will be left among the 75 billion circulating coins. It's hard for me to imagine needing 3
rolls of quarters to find a '65. In ten years a larger percentage of the collecting popula-
tion will think the Wisconsin varieties are necessary to their collections.

The changes going on will start coming faster and faster because time don't fly, it bounds
and leaps. In ten years the WI coins will be ~20 years old. Kids who were ten when they
were issued will be thirty years old.