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Bedrock of the Community
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Yesterday I got another batch of coins back from ANACS. This coin I am happy with the grading. But, I guess it would always be nice to get better. I see a lot of 1970 Washington quarters on ebay, asking for a lot of money ... Should I list this one for say .. 20K ..    |
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Bedrock of the Community
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All opinions welcome .. good or bad ..  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That is an exceedingly rare 1970D quarter. In that condition you should have no problem getting 20k. Should have gone with PCGS then you might have a shot at 30k.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Dang ... didn't think about PCGS.
It might be a little bit rare ... I thought with 30 views someone would see it
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Struck on dime stock, correct? It is a nice uncirculated example  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Struck on dime stock, correct? It is a nice uncirculated example Someone give the man a cookie ... (edit - the 20K was just joking)  Edited by GR58
09/23/2016 12:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I never understood why the 70d was so commonly struck on a dime planchet. Anybody have an answer?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The way I heard it. The mint has two rooms/areas.
One cuts the roll of stock into bars, the other punches
out planchets from the bars. In this case the first group
thought they were doing dimes, so they were using a large
roll of dime stock. The second group thought they were doing
quarters .. so they were cutting out quarter planchets from bars made of dime stock.
If I remember what I read ..
If someone knows a more accurate answer .. please post
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I didn't see this thread yet, very Nice coin! My LCS guy has one and he is asking 250.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I did post the 20k was joking .... But I did check once and they were selling at a wide range of prices. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Hey, if you can get 20k for it, go for it! (Even if it's 20k cents. ) That's a cool coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
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GR58's explanation is correct. The strip was fed through a slot in the wall.
These were exceedingly common for many years in the '70's and a major source of frustration. They wouldn't work in vending machines so I's always be johnny on the spot tooffer a "good quarter" for anything that didn't work. Usually I got either one of these or a silver quarter so I came out ahead to make up for the things that had little or no value at all. Of course I got a lot of Canadian quarters, slugs, and world coins. I never got a nice counterfeit so I wouldn't believe people when they claim to have contemporary counterfeit clad. A few showed up in the mid-'80's and I never got one of these either.
I could spot these sitting in the plastic rolls at the bank and would always request that specific roll.
You'd be surprised how many of these ended up in the trash. People would get frustrated and throw them in the garbage. Uncs are rather elusive and nice "attractive" coins like the one pictured are less common. All are poorly struck and most are in a mid to high end AU.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks for posting cladking
I do remember putting these quarters over and over into pop machines.
They would just slide right through. I wish I had kept more of them.
I do have another one. Not as good of grade.
Not sure if a XF/AU would be worth grading.
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Posted 09/23/2016 11:42 am
