Does anyone know of a 1955 Reverse R variety Quarter?

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 31, 2008 12:26PM

  Not offhand, though it sounds like the kind of questionable die variety/error Frank Spadone might have listed in one of his catalogs. Anybody got one handy?
  TD

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or in January on Amazon.

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• ProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭

  August 31, 2008 1:51PM

  There was once some excitement about a 1955 Type B quarter found in circulation. It was quite circulated and the consensus finally settled on an escaped proof as the culprit. It was mentioned in Coin World's Collectors' Clearinghouse.

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• ProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭

  September 1, 2008 12:36AM

  I found my 1974 6th edition of Spadone.
  The reverse "R" Quarter is listed for both 1955 and 1956. 1956 is illustrated. It is a die break from the loop of the 9 towards the rim. It really does look like a mirror image "R".

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• gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭

  September 1, 2008 5:21AM

  Do they list a price for the coin? Any error experts out there who can put a valuation on such an item>
  
  Dave

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2008 5:51AM

  
  
  << <i>I found my 1974 6th edition of Spadone.
  The reverse "R" Quarter is listed for both 1955 and 1956. 1956 is illustrated. It is a die break from the loop of the 9 towards the rim. It really does look like a mirror image "R". >>
  
  
  
  It is annoying that I can remember stuff like that, but can't remember why I walked into the other room just now......
  TD

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or in January on Amazon.

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• gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭

  September 1, 2008 6:00AM

  it is just a senior moment...do they list it in other error books?

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• MWallace Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2008 7:10AM

  
  
  << <i>It is annoying that I can remember stuff like that, but can't remember why I walked into the other room just now...... TD >>
  
  
  
  
  
  Me too!!!!

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• ProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭

  September 1, 2008 10:04AM

  <<Do they list a price for the coin? Any error experts out there who can put a valuation on such an item>>>
  Spadone had 3 columns for prices - Good, Fine and Unc.
  These reverse R quarters, he only listed in fine as $2.75 each.
  A normal 1956 was listed as .90 in unc and a normal 1955 at 2.25 in unc. Again only the one grade listed.

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• MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭

  September 1, 2008 10:07AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i>I found my 1974 6th edition of Spadone.
  The reverse "R" Quarter is listed for both 1955 and 1956. 1956 is illustrated. It is a die break from the loop of the 9 towards the rim. It really does look like a mirror image "R". >>
  
  
  
  It is annoying that I can remember stuff like that, but can't remember why I walked into the other room just now......
  TD >>
  
  
  
  You are getting old and cranky- take your meds and think- life is always better on the other side of the 'L'...

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• gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭

  September 1, 2008 11:09AM

  And these were his prices in 1974? I wonder what they would fetch today. Basically it is a coin with an interesting die break, right? I tried searching for it on Coneca but no luck...

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• ProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭

  September 1, 2008 12:11PM

  <<Basically it is a coin with an interesting die break, right?>>
  
  Right.

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