This one is really sad and extremely hilarious at the same time! I didn't respond because several other members did. It's just amazing how much new collectors need to learn and how the most important thing to do is become rich
It's even more amazing in the internet era, where a simple search for "1776-1976 quarter" will tell you everything you need to know in about 30 seconds.
Well, it does offer two dates. Think I'll go grab a bunch of 'em and head off to facebook .... here's a link to that specific post https://www.facebook.com/veronica.j...tQ9gAZoGTGv2HUHCTrTSMGMya5F87XNS7TE6HzoaAHsal
This last one is clearly a Chinese fake. Of course you know no such error exists as well as the P didn't appear on most coins until 1980 and SBAs in 1979. I can't image that people are duped by these ridiculous prices/ fakes/ frauds without consulting an expert. As for the actual bicentennial quarter I pretty much find one in almost every roll in my futile search for a W. One time I found one that was in such incredible condition, I thought it was a clad S. To my surprise it was a D mm and an MS coin which I immediately put in a flip. I couldn't believe how great the condition was. It must have only been in circ a very short time after coming from a collection.
Sometimes when I'm bored I like to send people that have listings like that an offer of an entire roll for as much as they want for One coin. I wonder why I never hear back from them.
I'm pretty sure the auction record for one is around $19,000 for a silver Bicentennial graded MS69 by PCGS.... by a longshot over a 1976-D DDO in MS66 which sold for $8,600. I may be wrong but I think $450,000 would be an auction record for the entire Washington quarter series. Notice that most of those places don't provide any proof that the coins are worth what they say.
The P mintmark didn't show up on quarters until 1980. This particular quarter also has the low relief "spaghetti hair" that I'm pretty sure wasn't used until the 1990's. The weird thing to me is this isn't a coin that's really worth faking, yet clearly they did anyway. Could a genuine bicentennial quarter be missing a digit in the date? Possibly, from a grease-filled die or something. Still wouldn't make it worth 6 figures though. On this one though there's not enough room for the "7" to be there. It's as if it was left off because they ran out of room to put it there. Highest auction value I could find for a Washington quarter was $143,750 for a 1932-D in MS-66. I assume the $19,000 was the highest ever paid for a bicentennial quarter.
There are always a couple in my jar every time I roll up the quarters. I don't think I've ever found one in a condition as bad as the OP example. People are stupid.
Distinct possibility. I keep seeing clickbait articles to the tune of "a coin that might be in your pocket right now could be worth millions" and it's a picture of a bicentennial quarter... when no bicentennial quarter to date has sold for more than $19,000 yet and the most paid for a Washington quarter of any kind hasn't yet beaten $150,000. Whether or not AI is involved... sometimes yes, sometimes no. AI has to be based on something, so the AI generated articles are probably based on more manually-created clickbait. But it's the inaccuracy that bothers me, not the fact AI was involved.
Yeah, this is one of the dangers of AI. It may turn out to do more harm than good. We have to be very careful about this new technology. Bruce
I posted one of those crap videos here the the other day. AI voice, showing some well-circulated common coin ( usually Lincoln wheat cents ) and saying that it could be worth thousands or millions . Seems that many have been suckered in by all this clickbait garbage, unfortunately. I guess they'll figure it out once they find no one's going to pay what they're asking for that junk.
