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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 976230, member: 24633&quot;]Here is the whole story as I know it......</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My order for four sets was preregistered through the Mint Subscription Program. At the same time, a man from AZ or NM (can&#039;t remember which) also had his subscription order increased for the 2005 sets to 10 because he was going to give all but one as gifts to relatives. We both received our sets about the same time. Actually, I placed my order for myself and a friend who didn&#039;t have access to a computer. When I received them, I discovered that two of four the sets had the error, so in all fairness, I let my friend have one of the sets.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I contacted Billy Crawford about it in June, 2005 and sent him the images because he wanted to use it as the feature story for his inaugural issue of the online &quot;Die Variety News&quot;. In the meantime, the other man discovered that not only did the set he kept have the error, but when he contacted his relatives they discovered that all 10 sets had the error. It was at this point that he sent his coin to Coin World and they ran a story on it in July, 2005. (I think) CONECA was also given the information for their files and the gentleman from the southwest was given credit for the discovery. At this point, Billy contacted CONECA to advise them that he had already ran a story on it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Personally, I don&#039;t care who got credit for the discovery because that and 50c still won&#039;t buy you a cup of coffee. What was, and still is, important to me is that there have not been any more of these errors reported. To date, there are only these 12 known to exist, and in all likelihood, they are probably the only ones because the proof program at the mint has a much higher degree of quality control than normal production. So, people can talk all they want about the Wisconsin &quot;High and Low Leaf&quot;. There were thousands of them struck. People can ooh and aah about the Minnesota &quot;Extra Trees&quot;. There were a bunch of them struck, too. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yeah, I have one of the 12 and it&#039;s in an NGC PF70 ULTRA CAMEO MINT ERROR slab. How often is it that you see a perfect error?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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