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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;saywhy, post: 1462610, member: 15942&quot;]Over the weekend I had made a appointment to C E Bullowa - Coin&nbsp; Hunter(who is mentioned in PCGS books) here in Philadelphia, they&nbsp; contacted me back on Monday right before I was heading out the door to&nbsp; take the coin to the mint and gave me a appointment for yesterday...I&nbsp; took the quarter in question to them yesterday and after looking at the&nbsp; coin weighing it(5.75g) scoping it measuring it by a couple different&nbsp; people that work for them, one of them I swear had to be 90 years old,&nbsp; told me that the coin is a true US mint coin with no signs of it being&nbsp; plated, dipped, chromed, and no signs of post mint anything done to the&nbsp; coin, and that there is errors on it, one of the errors that could be is&nbsp; the fact that when it was stuck on the back side it bent the coin from&nbsp; the feet to the the edges, but the only place or people that can call&nbsp; that a true error coin would be PCGS or NGC and only them. They told me&nbsp; if I send it to PCGS it should come back as MS-65 or MS-66...They also&nbsp; told me I need to sent it out to have it graded, but honestly no need to&nbsp; I am not looking to sell, my post was never intended to find the value&nbsp; that one places on something, I just wanted to see what it was...And&nbsp; believe it or not my family has a huge old money collection of blue and&nbsp; red seals from the turn of the 1900&#039;s, and hundreds of silvers half from&nbsp; the same time period that my father will pass to me when he dies, and I&nbsp; know they are real for the bank yelled at me when I was 10 for taking a&nbsp; blue seal 20.00 in just to get 2 rolls of quarters to play video games,&nbsp; I just wanted something unique to add to the collection so I can pass&nbsp; it to my son when I die...But all in all they placed the quarter in one&nbsp; of their soft thick plastic coin holders, yelled at me for the one I had&nbsp; it in hard plastic with the coin able to move and told me not to touch&nbsp; it again and if I do only on the edges...</p><p><br /></p><p>I valued every bodies&nbsp; option but I never trust the internet I am smart enough to know that and&nbsp; a word to the wise for the ones who just look at the internet for&nbsp; options it&#039;s a good starting place but should never be your final ending&nbsp; place. For one thing that makes no sense to me is if one is known has a&nbsp; coin missing say a leaf it&#039;s a error but if one unknown has say a coin&nbsp; missing a leg it&#039;s not a error it&#039;s call a grease slip or the die was&nbsp; dirty...In my eyes all coins coming from the US mint should look the&nbsp; same and if not then it is a error, and &quot;I&quot; believe the US mint looks at&nbsp; it the same way...Take a coin that isn&#039;t 100% correct back to the mint,&nbsp; they call it fake and take it from you for that&#039;s not how they intended&nbsp; the coin to be when it came out the mint...I know when the gold color&nbsp; dollars came out with the missing writing on the edges I went to the&nbsp; mint for a tour but I asked about it they thought I had one on me patted&nbsp; me down and threaten to lock me up if I had one and told me how coins&nbsp; should be coming out of the mint...But I never had one I was just&nbsp; wondering if they are valued in the coin world at up to 3k in&nbsp; dollars....So all in all if you believe you have something that is&nbsp; unique send it out to have it graded by the industry leader(PCGS) and&nbsp; only them. As for me I can care less about the value one sets at&nbsp; something for I hold other things dear to me other then money value, as&nbsp; for this coin I have some thing that not to many people have so it makes&nbsp; it unique and good enough for me...And they also told me it wasn&#039;t&nbsp; whizzed cleaned buffed it&#039;s just tarnishing even around the GW head so&nbsp; that&#039;s how I knew it wasn&#039;t plated on the edges....All have a good day,&nbsp; and thank you for every bodies help...Off to the next....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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