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<p>[QUOTE="JBK, post: 2376421, member: 1101"]You are every lucky to have found one in the wild. I have a few of them, all purchased on eBay. I paid as little as .99 for one (from Canada, due to the postage option highlighted on the auction page being $15.00 or something, but there was a much lower shipping option listed on the shipping details screen, which most people overlooked), and as much as $10 or $15 (and I lost one or two that went higher than that).</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a tremendous amount of misinformation online about this coin. I do not have Brunk's book so I do not know what he says about it. I seem to recall that there was speculation that they originated out west, maybe in Nevada. All the quarters seem to be dated from about the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I can tell you for sure is that they were NOT done by artist Ryan Thies. There was some conflicting information that it was done by him and I wrote to him to ask, and he sent me an elaborate response. I am not sure if it is still out there but at one time he used his reply to me (including a return envelope with some very interesting artwork) on his website to address the issue. He is an artist and perhaps “performance artist” as well, so some of his information needs to be taken with a grain of salt. In his letter to me he said that his father worked for the mint and did the stamping there, and was sent to prison for his actions. That was clearly tongue in cheek, though. Artist Ryan Thies (or his father) did not make these, that is certain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JBK, post: 2376421, member: 1101"]You are every lucky to have found one in the wild. I have a few of them, all purchased on eBay. I paid as little as .99 for one (from Canada, due to the postage option highlighted on the auction page being $15.00 or something, but there was a much lower shipping option listed on the shipping details screen, which most people overlooked), and as much as $10 or $15 (and I lost one or two that went higher than that). There is a tremendous amount of misinformation online about this coin. I do not have Brunk's book so I do not know what he says about it. I seem to recall that there was speculation that they originated out west, maybe in Nevada. All the quarters seem to be dated from about the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. What I can tell you for sure is that they were NOT done by artist Ryan Thies. There was some conflicting information that it was done by him and I wrote to him to ask, and he sent me an elaborate response. I am not sure if it is still out there but at one time he used his reply to me (including a return envelope with some very interesting artwork) on his website to address the issue. He is an artist and perhaps “performance artist” as well, so some of his information needs to be taken with a grain of salt. In his letter to me he said that his father worked for the mint and did the stamping there, and was sent to prison for his actions. That was clearly tongue in cheek, though. Artist Ryan Thies (or his father) did not make these, that is certain.[/QUOTE]
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