Anybody get an "extra cactus" Arizona quarter yet?

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• halfnut Posts: 1,619

  June 25, 2008 8:12AM

  Got mine last week from the same coin shop that was mentioned in Coin World ---- for Free. Cool Coin to have. Sure it will never be as big as the Wisconsin's but cool non the less.
  
  
  
  Dan

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• morgansforever Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 8:21AM

  No extra Cactus yet, wouldn't that be a hoot.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 8:27AM

  No.... but then, I have not been looking.... Cheers, RickO

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• sumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 8:28AM

  Anyone got pics?

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,818 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 12:30PM

  I want the one that shows the penguin roosting in the saguaro cactus......
  TD

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• COINB0Y Posts: 4,505

  June 25, 2008 12:37PM

  Think we can get 4,000 posts from this thread?

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• laxmaster92 Posts: 777

  June 25, 2008 12:40PM

  What do they look like?
  
  I still havent even seen an Arizona quarter yet

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• bsb Posts: 82

  June 25, 2008 1:52PM

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• EagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 2:19PM

  I saw one that had a catus leaf down over the designer's initial and then one more over the date. Tony Tumonis showed it to me. He was on the design comittee and asked one of the workers about the dies breaking. They said that because of the busy design the dies failed much faster than previous dies. Something like 30,000 per die rather than 200,000. He predicted die breaks would be numerous and now we see the result.
  

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• ArizonaJack Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 2:40PM

  I picked up 4 rolls from my bank today, but they are D mint

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• CoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 9:10PM

  Just wondering, why would Phily's dies break easier than Denver's?

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• skibum Posts: 105

  June 25, 2008 9:29PM

  no but new to me. I will buy some rolls & look for them with my 2 boys. thanks chris

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• Placid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 10:50PM

  
  
  << <i>Does anyone have a picture of what it looks like? >>
  
  
  
  From eBay.
  
  
  
  

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• baddogss Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 11:09PM

  
  
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  << <i>Does anyone have a picture of what it looks like? >>
  
  
  
  From eBay.
  
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  I found 8 coins in a roll of P's this morning having the designers initials covered up, but the leaves above the date are not as obvious.
  I will try to post some images later. Have another roll to search too.
  
  Bob

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• LeeBone Posts: 4,629 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 25, 2008 11:14PM

  Thanks for the great giveaway
  
  

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• FilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭

  June 26, 2008 9:07AM

  Got mine today! (the expensive way, Ebay)
  
  
  New comparison pics-
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Do they both look to have the extra cactus at the base over the initials?

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• 19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭

  June 26, 2008 9:11AM

  
  
  << <i>Think we can get 4,000 posts from this thread? >>
  
  
  
  Maybe if Mr. Koo takes an interest in it!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• fc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭

  June 26, 2008 9:18AM

  hard to get excited over these things. an article about a few die breaks. this hobby is odd.

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• GAT Posts: 3,146 ✭

  June 26, 2008 9:22AM

  In 3008 will anyone care? It's all nonsense.

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• coinman420 Posts: 4,666 ✭

  June 26, 2008 9:47AM

  oddities like this come out all the time if you look for them and will not be worth a premium in my opinion.
  
  i found a bunch of these in some rolls a couple years ago.
  
  

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• FilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭

  June 27, 2008 10:35AM

  OK, new pics I took today-
  
  
  
  #1 has both extra cacti
  #2 Extra cactus at base (over initials)
  #3 Normal (no die breaks discovered)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• BECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭

  June 27, 2008 10:41AM

  Cool, another series we can collect by die state.

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• goldmine266 Posts: 201

  June 27, 2008 11:59AM

  Cool never saw one of those before
  

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• FilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭

  June 27, 2008 12:15PM

  
  
  << <i>Cool never saw one of those before >>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Now everybody, go and sort your change with a loupe this evening!
  
  
  
  It'll keep you out of trouble.

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• Longshot Posts: 353

  June 27, 2008 10:04PM

  Ah crud, I just searched a 1000 quarters from the mint and found some of the ones where the date is covered, but I wasn't looking for the no initials. So now I have to re-search the lot.
  I did hear the date covered version was coming only from the mint sewn 1000 coin bags. Thoughts?

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