sportinwood
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- Dec 7, 2010
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Hello Everyone
I’ll start by introducing myself before I ask for help LOL…
My name is Ryan. I have been metal detecting and collecting coins for about 23 years now and have found some very nice stuff over the years. I started when I was about ten when my dad got into it. We have had a great time and made a ton of fond memories hunting together. We live in Utah and usually hunt old houses and such that have been torn down.
Now a short story about this Quarter.
This happens to be the very first quarter that I had found silver OR clad. It was directly followed by a 1924 s standing quarter, a common date barber dime (can’t remember the date), and a buffalo nickel all from the same hole. Needless to say I was an extremely exited little kid having found all this stuff within the first couple of times out and I was/still am hooked. This 1926 s Standing quarter I believe is in AU50 if not MS63 condition. When I found it I was hunting a little old ladies yard in Ogden Utah. My dad was in the yard and I was doing the parking strip. I hit a good quarter signal with my Bounty Hunter (Big Bud) and canceled out the top 3” of depth (The only depth indicator this machine is capable of). The signal was still there. I knew It needed to be dug so to work I went. After about 4” up rolled the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my life. It was this quarter as shiny and pretty as it was the day it was lost. I must have let out a yelp the whole neighborhood heard because I was surrounded by people before I could stand up to see what the big deal was. The little old lady who owned the house took the quarter from me directly in the house (With permission from my dad) and gently washed the dirt off and wrapped it in some toilet paper for the safe trip home. After she returned the quarter to me and all the neighbors left the scene my dad told me to check the hole. I did and again another yelp it was the second quarter. I went over the hole and yup another great signal. I fluffed the dirt and the Barber dime rolled out (another first). Then the Buffalo nickel (yet another first). I was in Hogg heaven and you can probably guess I worked the crap out of that parking strip but only found a few more wheaties.
A few days ago I was in a local coin store and seen a 1926 s standing quarter in the case just like mine. It was marked MS63 and had a price tag on it of $750. This got me a little excided so I went home and pulled mine out to look at it that’s when I noticed something strange on the reverse side. I have never seen this on any other standing quarter before which leads me to believe it is a mint error.
It has a quite distinctive extra feather on the eagles’ right hand wing tip (our left) and another faint one a little further down the wing. The spot’s in question are circled in red. I have scoured the internet for this or something close to it but found nothing.
So What do you Guys/Gals think?
Is this a mint error coin?
If so is it a commonly known error or a never before seen error?
What condition would you grade it at?
Would this error (if that’s what it is) make it worth more and how much more?
All comments are very welcome!!
Thanks in advance.
Ryan
I’ll start by introducing myself before I ask for help LOL…
My name is Ryan. I have been metal detecting and collecting coins for about 23 years now and have found some very nice stuff over the years. I started when I was about ten when my dad got into it. We have had a great time and made a ton of fond memories hunting together. We live in Utah and usually hunt old houses and such that have been torn down.
Now a short story about this Quarter.
This happens to be the very first quarter that I had found silver OR clad. It was directly followed by a 1924 s standing quarter, a common date barber dime (can’t remember the date), and a buffalo nickel all from the same hole. Needless to say I was an extremely exited little kid having found all this stuff within the first couple of times out and I was/still am hooked. This 1926 s Standing quarter I believe is in AU50 if not MS63 condition. When I found it I was hunting a little old ladies yard in Ogden Utah. My dad was in the yard and I was doing the parking strip. I hit a good quarter signal with my Bounty Hunter (Big Bud) and canceled out the top 3” of depth (The only depth indicator this machine is capable of). The signal was still there. I knew It needed to be dug so to work I went. After about 4” up rolled the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my life. It was this quarter as shiny and pretty as it was the day it was lost. I must have let out a yelp the whole neighborhood heard because I was surrounded by people before I could stand up to see what the big deal was. The little old lady who owned the house took the quarter from me directly in the house (With permission from my dad) and gently washed the dirt off and wrapped it in some toilet paper for the safe trip home. After she returned the quarter to me and all the neighbors left the scene my dad told me to check the hole. I did and again another yelp it was the second quarter. I went over the hole and yup another great signal. I fluffed the dirt and the Barber dime rolled out (another first). Then the Buffalo nickel (yet another first). I was in Hogg heaven and you can probably guess I worked the crap out of that parking strip but only found a few more wheaties.
A few days ago I was in a local coin store and seen a 1926 s standing quarter in the case just like mine. It was marked MS63 and had a price tag on it of $750. This got me a little excided so I went home and pulled mine out to look at it that’s when I noticed something strange on the reverse side. I have never seen this on any other standing quarter before which leads me to believe it is a mint error.
It has a quite distinctive extra feather on the eagles’ right hand wing tip (our left) and another faint one a little further down the wing. The spot’s in question are circled in red. I have scoured the internet for this or something close to it but found nothing.
So What do you Guys/Gals think?
Is this a mint error coin?
If so is it a commonly known error or a never before seen error?
What condition would you grade it at?
Would this error (if that’s what it is) make it worth more and how much more?
All comments are very welcome!!
Thanks in advance.
Ryan
