There is a thread posted in coin roll hunting about this coin that I found a couple weeks ago. I figured since that section looks pretty dead I would also post it here in hopes that others in the error community will see this.
Last photo certainly looks good. I don't know all the diff names, but that is a big and prominent one.
Awesome set! Does anyone know how common these coins are? Seems like there is no true number on the amount made.
I don’t think they know the number of them that were minted as two dies were damaged by a disgruntled mint employee. Hence the high, low and normal varieties. Almost 227 thousand were minted totally at the Denver mint. The damage was to create chaos but when the coins were minted it looked like a high and a low leaf and since they were already in circulation it was named as a variety and the two dies were identified and removed from service.
Congrats on the find NLL. I have never found either the high leaf or low leaf varieties. There is another obscure variety for the year. It did not catch on like the state quarter; it is the doubled ear Roosevelt dime. This makes me think that there was a malfunction at the mint rather than a disgruntled employee.
Understood but here’s what I have always gone by. According to Snow’s website, two different dies were damaged by a mint employee. The statement is: Within a year they became the subject of extreme speculation and debate over their cause. “Now, over ten years later, they are known,” Snow's website claims, “to have been deliberately created at the Denver Mint by someone who sabotaged two different dies with a small tool. I’m not sure about the doubling on the ear but then I don’t normally collect varieties. I do have the high and low leaf varieties.
I keep hearing about this corrupt Denver mint. I have never read the same words. The problem I have with it is that the single press was elementary, still young and in it's infantsy. I would like to read what ever Snow wrote. You have a link?
