1972 Quarter Struck Over 1964 Silver Quarter

eel Ive noticed you have went from not being really into coins (Guitars) in some of your first post. To loving them. Whats not to love when you have a coin that may be worth $25,000. Big question what are you you going to do with this coin if you could find a buyer ?

Seeking: $25G Guitar?

Rainman

are you going to get it certified?

-64s

Perhaps an interesting mint error, perhaps an illegally manufactured and therefore contraband error.

Get in touch with Alan Herbert, whose memory is usually better than mine. IIRC, back in 1972 there were a whole bunch of fake errors made by a mint employee, one of which was a proof quarter overstruck on a 1900 quarter. Others were stuff like saddle-shaped and folded over coins, which there was no way to have been errors without human assistance (putting the coin between the dies on edge, for example).

Similarly, there were things like nickel blanks struck as dimes, and it would be impossible for that to happen, because they wouldn't fit through the dime feed tube, so again, they would had to have been put on the press manually.

Herbert can be contacted through the ANA: http://www.money.org Other places to check with would be the error folks at either Coin World or Numismatic News. If you're in the clear, they can provide valuable news coverage and exposure. If it's questionable or part of the original case I mentioned, you risk confiscation if you send it to the SS for authentication.

Nope, first time here, but I do have over 16,000 posts on rec.collecting coins.

I have a little experience with errors. Had a Canadian dollar double-struck in collar with a divot where a second coin tried to feed into the struck coin that hadn't ejected. I was told it wasn't possible, so I sent it to Alan Herbert, and he literally rewrote part of his book on errors.

I also have a Goodacre SAC error (there were only 5000 specially burnished SACs paid to her). Mine proves they were burnished after striking, and is a struck thru error.

"Fake Errors".....?....hummmmm.......well BiggFred sheds a new perspective here kind of. So this was known to have happened now and in 1972 specifically ?.....WOW !...Was this "Mint Employee" caught and identified and thrown in jail ?......are/were his "purposely minted error" coins worth any money ?

Please understand this is not as a challenge, but I would like to know more about " But the majority of assisted proof errors trade in the marketplace with no problem." Are these in Auctions like Heritage or such and are attributed as an "assisted production" or even on ebay? IF so I would like to see how it is handled in the description. Is this more than hearsay? Are such trades private treaty or in a public sale structure. Thanks,

Jim

As to the proof errors, any proof error that is oversized as the result of being struck off-center or double-struck is considered to have had help getting out of the Mint. These coins will not fit into a proof set and that's the only way these coins can leave the Mint legitimately. These oversized proof errors are concentrated in the years 1968 - 1973. They're bought and sold all the time out in the open and the government has never confiscated any of them as far as I know.

Mike, has there ever been any speculation as to whose responsible for all the intentional errors?