I found this coin on EBAY and the seller couldn't supply a better photo. I asked for a better photo. He says : "You can't capture on a scan. The coin's surfaces overall are spotty and look unevenly oxidized from some thin organic debris being in the dies, so the whole surfaces are spotty and uneven on both sides. It just looks like a kind of dirty coin, can't bring it out on scans or pictures..." Is this an excuse for a uninteresting, valueless coin? Because has ANACS verified this as a real attribute of this coin. I've already bid on this initially. I'm not sure if I'll continue to bid. Check out this slabbed coin.
To tell ya the truth 5 years ago that coin would never be labeled as such. In fact most of the errors they label today would never have been attributed 5 yrs ago - they would have been ignored. And not much longer ago than that the vast majority of collectors ignored any error - they considered them as damaged coins. And I mean errors like clips, off center strikes, brockages etc. And they had minimal if any value. It has only been very recently that errors have become popular. Used to be, you couldn't give them away.
Dirty Error Coins This didn't strike me of much of an important error, since you can't see it in a photo. When the GW $'s came out and everyone and their mothers were finding errors and selling them I thought I'd wait on my finds. I found about 18 out of 100 GW Dollars-off struck, edge printing lop sided, edge printing with "ghost letters strewn about. etc. None of the valuable Godless or double struck coins. I held them to see what would pan out as a real error coin. I still have all I've found and haven't tried to sell them. I like them for what they are. I didn't want to hurry them up on ebay to score big. Now this Montana quarter is what? a one of a kind? An irrevelent dirty strike? or someones greedy dream of wealth and opportunity? It's slabbed so it'll probably go for $15 - $75. Whatever the buyer will pay. Maybe I'll up my bid.
The "error" is so minor that it doesn't show in that scan? Then it is a minor strike through worth a dollar or so, maybe less. Not worth anywhere close to what someone paid ANACS to slab it. As for ANACS attributing it on te holder, they bid it because they were paid to, not because it was significant.
Coinworld has an article http://www.statequarters.com/FirstReports/Delaware.asp another site said it would be worth less than a dollar
And the winner is: The winner paid $16.95 + $3.95 S & H = $20.00 I hope he/she enjoys it. I bet we'll see it on ebay later on. Bruce
