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The correct Wisconsin quarter has the head of a cow, a circle
of cheese and a corn stalk. There are two mistakes in
circulation for the infamous Wisconsin Quarter Error coin. One
is called "extra leaf low" and contains a second shadow leaf on
the left of the corn stalk pointing down. The other is called
"extra leaf high" and has a second shadow leaf on the left side
of the corn stalk pointing up. Mint errors are usually caught by
the U.S. Mint before they get into circulation, but as history
has showed us, error coins seem to somehow slip through the
tough cracks at the US MINT. The lower display is
what you are looking for in each of the coins. Notice the
extra leaf.
 
So how the extra-leafed Wisconsin Quarter Error coins came to bear images different from the official die
of the Wisconsin quarters were to be struck from is still
being looked into, and this altered artwork appears to have been a deliberate act on the part of an unknown employee of the U.S. Mint. Numismatic experts believe the additional leaves were not the result of miss-strikes of the official die, but of strikes made with altered dies.
The coins with errors were minted
in Denver and circulated mostly in Arizona and Texas. It’s
liable to be a long time before any of the errors find their
way to other parts of the country, and chances are pretty slim they
wont get picked out of circulation by someone who thinks
they’ll get rich. Although, there are those skeptics
that still believe that the coins were deliberately made, I
feel they are nothing more than die gouges that happened
during the minting process. Die gouges are quite
common in coin minting and if this is the case the
difference in the rarity of the coins would be turned and
those that have made quite a large penny on these coins
would have made out like bandits. Meanwhile, the Wisconsin
statehood quarters have literally disappeared from
circulation from wood-be collectors thinking they have a
rare find. It appears people started hoarding the coins, some thinking that any
Wisconsin quarter is worth a lot of money. It could
be, or it could not be.
So what is the coin worth if
you find one? Well there are reports of people selling
them on Ebay for over 1000 dollars, and others have been a
little more realistic at selling a three coin set of the
normal quarter and the two Wisconsin Quarter Error for about
300 dollars. While single error coins have been going
for around 100 dollars a piece, the coins despite there
popularity with collectors, and the preliminary reports from
the US Mint of what actually happened, have put the
Wisconsin Quarter Error coins in high demand, and when the
public finds out what actually happened, the coins could
only be worth as much as 10 dollars. Time will only
tell.
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