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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Whatever happened to the guy with the 1972 silver quarter? Wasn't it being sent in to a TPG. I'm assuming that it wasn't legit... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
I'm curious about this myself. Following that thread was an adventure!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1984 Posts |
The previous thread was locked; I don't know what the result was, or whether there has been a definitive result yet.
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Forum Dad
 United States
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After having it for months, they wouldn't commit either way. "Undetermined" I believe was the term they used. Susan would know for sure.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4867 Posts |
I remember this. Now that it has been mentioned, I wonder what happened?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
Perhaps Anacs or a different TPG would certify it. -XoG |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
I wonder if the problem is that they are confident that this is an intentionally made error by a Mint employee and do not want to legitimize it? I have noticed that some high end error dealers do not like to handle the "manufactured" errors, here is a blurb from Mike Byer's website-
We buy U.S. Errors that were legitimately found or released thru normal distribution channels.
Please do not offer us the following:
More than two coins bonded together.
Caps more than ½ inch high.
U.S. Errors that were obviously and intentionally struck as error coins. No impossible mint errors.
I guess you could classify this 1964/1972 quarter as an "impossible error". Still, avoiding the thing doesn't make it go away, the owner still has possession of a very real dramatic error...
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Forum Dad
United States
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Yeah, there's no doubt the coin was smuggled in, struck on purpose, and smuggled out.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2269 Posts |
I missed out on the original thread. I don't understand why some people feel the need to smuggle out an illegally made coin, Aren't the risks of getting caught too high. Plus as a collector I wouldn't want to add a suspicious coin to my collection. By doing so you risk getting the coin confiscated and jail time for receiving stolen property.
Maybe the original coin was just a well made hoax.
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Locked
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Well I've got to say this and I'm not accusing anyone of anything.
I have a problem with one of the premier error dealers in the world sitting at PCGS making these decisions. Decisions that could drastically change the value of his inventory. Suppose the guy that made this coin, made 2, and one is in this grader's inventory. Authenticating this one has a drastic effect on the value of his. I think it's a pretty big conflict of interest that shouldn't be there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bobby,
Did Eel ever elaborate on how the coin came into his hands? That error was marginally possible as a blank 1964 90% silver planchet being struck with '72 dies, but there's no way a coin could be struck in '64 and the struck coin return to the planchet feeder and remain there for 8 years without human help.
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Forum Dad
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
625 Posts |
Anyone got a link to the original thread? Would love to read about it.
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Administrator
United States
326 Posts |
The original thread is gone because the childishness of some was embarrassing.
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Valued Member
United States
245 Posts |
"That error was marginally possible as a blank 1964 90% silver planchet being struck with '72 dies"
That how it happen, but regardless of the "why", it's worth some big bucks.
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Posted 10/21/2009 9:53 pm
