I received my first big purchase from the mint today. One of the items I received in the box was a $25 bag of Kansas P quarters. Since I live in the Denver mint area this seems to be the most reliable and best way to specifically search Philadelphia coins. Anyway while sorting and searching the quarters I found about 15-20 that show some serious cud action. Check out the pictures below. My question is: should I just place them in air-tites and store them or try to sell a few and see if there is a market for these. I can only assume that they would be considered errors and not verities and therefore they wouldn't receive a special error designation correct? Either way this is my first real find from searching and I'd like to share. BTW I also found a grease filled error. Well about 40 errors. I am trying to piece together the coins to determine if I can show a progression. I believe at least 25 will easily form a progressive error grouping.
[puerile] He's got a booger on his nose! [/puerile] Cool! I'd love to see the progression when you are done!
Lots of die chips and a few blind-ended die cracks. The large number of die chips should boost the coin's value at least a little bit.
There were a couple more that I didn't find on some of the coins. One was on the eyebrow and another on the upper half of the first 0 in 2000. All in all 4 show all the Chips and cracks. 6 more show most of the ones shown above and 6 more show verying stages of the chips. Usually only the In God.. and the Eyebrow.
I've got the progression kinda sorted out but I am not positive on some of the coins. I appaers that sometimes the previous strike spread out the grease and sometimes it shrunk it. There is also a gap in which there may or may not be some missing coins. I say this since a large change occurs in one area of the coin. Can anyone recomend a way to show the 40 coin progression?
due to the file restrictions on file posting, and that you have 40 to show... maybe an animated gif would help -- it could be set up to show 1 after another with a 1sec interval or so.... you would only see one at a time, but if you watch for 40 seconds you would se them all... Just an idea...
If you can take pics of the coins 4 or 5 at a time in the order of progression and email the whole lot of pics to me - I'll post them for you
