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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 52535, member: 2761&quot;]Interesting results...</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I think the high and low leaf varieties were the result of a Denver mint employee(s) fooling around with one of the dies.&nbsp; Of course mint dies used are evidentially destroyed so we will never know how the high and low leaf got there on <u>only</u> 2004-D Wisconsin quarters.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://bestsmileys.com/lol/12.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The fact of the matter is if this is the case, you have a <u>true</u> variety.&nbsp; I guess my polling selection of Mint employees(s) and a true variety should be combined as one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, how many varieties can you see with the naked eye?&nbsp; How many die gouges actually look like a corn stalk?&nbsp; Ken Potter might believe this, but I bet he is buying them as inexpensively as possible, but will soon come around and be selling them for top dollar!</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not a big fan of varieties, especailly those that require 30X power to see, but I am fascinated with this quarter even though I don&#039;t collect state quarters.&nbsp; Also, case in point, years ago vending machines that sold cigarettes for 28 cents included 2 cents as &quot;change&quot; with the pack of cigarettes itself.&nbsp; One of those cents was the famous 1955 DDO cent and I am sure at the time, people thought it was &quot;no big deal&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there was no internet and instant &quot;variety&quot; news as we have now.&nbsp; Look at the &quot;speared&quot; Buffalo and &quot;Detached Leg&quot; Buffalo nickels that are making the circles on these threads.&nbsp; If that happened in 1955, it would of took years before anybody paid attention to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here was a variety that could be seen without a loop and it wasn&#039;t till years later that collectors actually started to pay attention to these cents.&nbsp; Well, the Wisconsin 2004-D quater has been out for less than a year and <i>Coin Values </i> had on their cover stating the next &quot;$1,000 quarter...the &#039;Stalk&#039; of the Hobby.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>No big deal?&nbsp; I sure we would all love to have the high and low leaf just to say we have one!&nbsp; Then we would being doing the jig like Grandpa Joe when Charlie found the golden ticket!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_images/tv2/movies/wk23_willy_wonka_c_two.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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