OMG! Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have always wanted to find one and always look at my Wisconsin quarters that I get in change. Congrats on doing something which I thought was impossible!!! PS - after years of not finding one, I finally bought one of those three quarter sets that are often found on ebay and such. It was a MS65 set. I really like it and it was worth the $$$ I paid for it.
I guess I could just search it out, but I have you experts around for that. I don't really do modern coins, so, what is this variety and what is it worth?
http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/state-quarter-errors.html#Wisconsin THis may help. Scroll half way down the page and the info you are looking for should be there. Easier to post link than to type everything out. As far as mintage, read the article. It mentions estimated mintages.
Aye the "Extra Leaf" varieties are examples of very well-placed die gouges (like the "Speared Buffalo" and "Wounded Eagle"). Gouges happen all the time, but when they fall somewhere interesting and novel, they're worth a good premium.
In the August 2007 issue of The Numismatist, the official publication of theAmerican Numismatic Association, collector Chris Pilliod, who is a metallurgist by profession, published the results of a scientific investigation into the cause of the extra leaves. The evidence he gathered, much of it through scanning electron microscopy, led him to conclude the "error" was done intentionally. The window of opportunity was the time between die hubbing and final heat treat, when the die metal is soft enough that someone can alter the design with a punch tool and hammer. High magnification revealed metal flow evidence consistent with theory, while eliminating other possible causes.
Yeah, or the dies could have simply been dropped. I'm rather skeptical of Pilliod's conclusions as they're not the sharpest under Occam's Razor.
I'm with you on this one . We all know these are only die gouges and they can try to hype them up all they want to and it will still only be a die gouge regardless of how it got there. die gouges and big die breaks can be found on a lot of our newer coins.
Great find! I really need to start looking at my change better. From that link jaceravone posted, for the lazy: "Near the crescendo of the frenzy, certain individual coins were selling for as high as $1500. After a few thousand of the coins were found, prices cooled off, but still, a collector can expect to pay hundreds of dollars on eBay for an Uncirculated Wisconsin State Quarter error coin."
