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United States
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 I recently found in change the pictured quarter with most of the date missing. You only see the first "1" in the date. I call it the "Year 1" quarter...lol The date is not worn off, but it seems to be a stamping error as there is a die crack under George's pony tail. I brought it to a local coin dealer. He blew it off as a common error and only worth a couple dollars.  It's probably from the 1990's. I've never seen such a quarter in my 30 years of collecting and my coin collecting buddies haven't seen such as error either, so I believe it must be rather rare. Can anyone enlighten me about its value and rarity? If you tell me it's common, please post a picture of a similar quarter with a similar error. Thanks! 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Probably a Grease Filled Die which obliterates the underlying details. I would not say that it's common, especially when the date comes into consideration. I had a Bicentennial Quarter once upon a time and I sold it for a little over $10 because of a "filled die", but it was a much smaller area in the reverse legends. Nice find, I would keep it!  Edited by oih82w8
01/07/2013 12:55 pm
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 United States
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It looks like a Struck Through Grease error. Not a high dollar value but kinda cool. I would keep it. Put it in a 2x2 for protection. John1  EDIT: Forgot to say to CCF. Edited by John1
01/07/2013 1:04 pm
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New Member
 United States
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Thanks for the thoughts. I have placed it in a 2x2 and I plan on keeping it (until I someday get an urge to put it on ebay). I've heard other people mention a grease error, but would this type of error create a die crack? Seeing the large number of collectors in this forum, I hope to get a better feel of its rarity. Yes, I've heard "not common" and "not high value", but this particular error on this type of coin seems to be approaching unique, unless one of the many collectors out there can tell me, yes, I've seen many of these. |
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United States
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redsparx, to the CCF. Overall grease filled errors are common, but not so much to that extent. If you go on E-Bay and do a search, you'll see that. There appears to be a raised area right under Washington's bust above & to the left side of where the 3rd date # would've been... Is it a raised area, discoloration, or a depression in the metal? |
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United States
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 I'm not exactly sure what feature you're asking about, so I took the best blow-up picture I could get and things get more interesting...  I may be dreaming, but in the approximate location of the 3rd date number, It looks like a vertical 07 and horizontally I see maybe the word "oaks" under George's collar?  Would a grease error leave this tiny text?  What in the world am I seeing?  |
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Canada
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Ummm. I'm not sure what you're seeing, but I see it too! Right underneath George's neck, OAKS. It's probably just a trick of the lighting.
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United States
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This is the equivalent of 'Jesus in the toast' but it's probably just something do to with the lighting. I had a quarter that if you looked close enough you could make out 'Washington slept here.'
The clogged die is a nice find. A 2x2 flip worthy coin but no big payday. Nice find.
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United States
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mds... now that's funny...  |
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New Member
United States
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 ...to continue the levity, I would suspect a coin dated year 1 could have been in the pocket change of Jesus. Now that would be a hot item on ebay...lol...it does say in God we trust...but it would be a hard sell to convince the G. Washington portrait is really someone like Caeser,not to mention the United States of America on the reverse. Joking aside, I'm still seeking someone with a similar error on a modern quarter to post so I know this isn't a unique item.  |
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United States
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Actually this is not an error. A phenom. that occurs with all denominations of coins at one time or another. Somehow some debris (often grease, sometimes not) manages to make it's way on to one or maybe even both dies and sometimes the planchet itself. This debris will take up the area that normally should have shown up on the strike. Being unique in a way, is possible let's say if the one coin was struck then the debris fell off of the die thus any coin struck after it was normal. Many more could have been struck also before it was noticed and the die was either cleaned or replaced. No way possible to tell how many were struck through debris though. Below is an example of a Lincoln Cent. I have posted it a few times before when dealing with struck through debris filled die coins etc. More of a novelty coin so to say. Something different and collectible if you like but not scarce or rare. I think some are pretty different so I keep more dramatic ones myself. This one happens to be a 1994 because under 10X loupe I can make out the date.   |
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United States
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 Thanks for the additional input, however I believe pennies without dates are sort of common. I'm not sure why that is. Anyway, I'd like to keep closer to topic and see a missing (or mostly missing) date on a modern US quarter. True, it's hard to tell how many of these missing date quarters were made, but I'm not seeing another one in a collector's possession yet. If only a couple others exist like this, I'd have to think it falls under a "rare" category whether of not it's considered an error.  |
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United States
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Here is one listed on ebay and granted it only has one digit missing I would be surprised if it sells for more than a buck or two if it sells at all. whether it's a cent,Dime,Quarter this type of anomaly does not bring much of a premium http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Washingt...em2326d906f5 |
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United States
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Actually, I found one better example on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1998-MINT-E...em27cd63a295Got almost $30. for an actual no date grease error quarter. IMHO, I think the "Year 1" on my quarter is a bit cooler. Anyway, this error seems to have more value than a couple dollars and it seems to be even less common (dare I say approching rare) to have just a single digit of the date showing.  I'm open to more evidence one way or another, but maybe for now we've beat this to death.  Thanks for all the input. |
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