1998 Washington Quarter "spaghetti hair"

Got this in my change today, this is the best quarter I've ever found, not sure if there's some type of error on reverse with the left leaf overlapping the right wing (looking at the coin)

 

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What makes it "the best quarter you've found"?

Look like a common, circulated, average struck quarter to me.

 

The details on the obverse and reverse. Most washington I find are all worn except for a 95 but not as sharp as the details on this one.

 

Has some nice details, but only worth 25 cents.

 

Yeah, I didn't think it was worth more than face value.

 

I just can't get excited about the low relief coins in circulation today. I have received some nice ones in change, but they go in my change jars.

 

It is certainly getting difficult to find nice AU eagle reverse quarters.

Pretty soon even the XF's will be gone.

 

Keep it. That is a 20 yr old coin. I keep all of them regardless of their condition and year. Between 1965-1998.

 

Why do you recommend keeping coins older than 20 years?

 

Is that what is collecting is about? I can suggest whatever I want and I don't impose on others. Whatever Is your position is not relevant to me

 

I recommend any coins regardless of how old it is. Each person has his or her own preference.

 

Not an error. @JayF , go research or look up uncirculated Washington quarters starting in 1932 to present. Try searching one from every 20 years or so then also search proofs. You'll see several design changes. This 1998 is very different in design from the 1964 portrait design. They added a lot of hair detail. Doesn't mean the 1964 is a lower grade or that yours is a higher grade. It's just made differently.

 

You are absolutely correct and I have no criticism of what you or other individuals collect. It just sounded like you were recommending others should do the same as you without providing any additional thoughts on why this would be a good idea. That may not be the best advice because it is very unlikely that the demand for common circulated 1965-1998 coins will increase. Hundreds of millions were minted and collectors can easily find inexpensive uncirculated examples of most dates in Mint Sets


If you were only saying that you would keep it because that is what you like collect, I apologize for misinterpreting your post.

 

Yeah, I didn't think it was an error at all. I thought at the time I found this CRHing that the details on the hair was still so clear and looked it up and found out about spaghetti hair (I guess variety?) I collect these now, I just love how it looks. I have one from 94 to 98 I believe. I don't remember which years have these, not sure if it was mentioned in the article I read before. Thanks!

Edit : Just to clarify, I mentioned "error" but was referencing something on the reverse (chopped leaf on the wing...thinking could be a chip but maybe not) and not the hair.

 

I never expect to make money on them and that I'm just having fun collecting them.

Will definitely give them to the kids.

 

JayF, spaghetti hair, to most people, is preferable to Medusa's hair !!!

 

You are definitely right that there are lot of uncirculated coins but I'm not paying a premium on them even though I can afford them. I've already paid premiums on other coins and we all know that things cost more over the years. I still don't want to loose sight how we got into coin collecting and that it shouldn't be that expensive. Just fun..

 

Show us a picture of your quarters sometime.

 

I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. I'm just a few days old and learning alot, but i pulled this one out of a bank roll and knew it was different, I just figured it was a circulated proof, but there's is still something different about the hair . Maybe you'll start a new collection....

 

Allow me to chip in, even without being specialist on U.S. coinage. Re. the 1998 "spaghetti hair" on ?Washington coin. If that coin is different, why not show that coin next to an quarter coin of a different year, so members can compare and judge for themselves whether there is any great, or minor, difference in the two coins ?