1870-S Quarter surfaces in old time collection!

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• coindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 1, 2008 12:37AM

  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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• mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭

  April 1, 2008 12:59AM

  Maybe your fooling us by saying it's an April fools joke and it's really true.
  
  

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• RichieURich Posts: 8,552 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 1, 2008 1:45AM

  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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• lathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭

  April 1, 2008 2:15AM

  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

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,678 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 1, 2008 2:32AM

  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?
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• lathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭

  April 1, 2008 7:58AM

  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

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• coindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 1, 2008 9:41AM

  
  
  << <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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