Does anyone know of a 1955 Reverse R variety Quarter?

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,687 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 31, 2008 1:26PM

  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. 50 year member ANA. 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. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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• ProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭

  August 31, 2008 2:51PM

  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 1:36AM

  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 6:21AM

  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: 32,687 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2008 6:51AM

  
  
  << <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. 50 year member ANA. 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. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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• gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭

  September 1, 2008 7:00AM

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

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• MWallace Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2008 8:10AM

  
  
  << <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 11:04AM

  <<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 11:07AM

  
  
  << <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 12:09PM

  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 1:11PM

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

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