Any Ideas On Who I Could Trust With A Modern High Value Coin

No problem. It never hurts to ask.

Besides, looking at the pics it does look like something was off.

Anyway, it is a very nice coin. Love those DCAM's.

twslisa, sorry to disappoint you but my middle name is Alan, I am a male (and an old one). I have always gone by my given first name, I like it and I use it. From my personal experience there as many males with that spelling of the name as females, but very few of either.

Back on the coin in question here it looks to me that it might have been struct on a damaged planchet. The fact that the line above the R goes through the rim to the left makes me think that the blank may have had a defect that was not wiped out during upsetting. Such an error might still realistically get a 70 grade if the strike itself is "perfect", but I am not sure I would grade it like that (or even what grade I would give such a coin). Damaged planchets are a well recognized type of error and to have one on a proof coin is somewhat special, like my silver proof die error quarter but somewhat of a "lesser error" if that makes any sense. As to value, I am sure that the error adds some value, but getting it labeled as an error may reduce the grade thus negating any value increase. In my case, getting an error attribution can only increase the value of mhy quarter since it was given a PR67 grade to begin with.

Conder101, on more careful examination, I see exactly what you mean. Thanks for that great explanation.