Dockwalliper Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 NN is reporting a Double die error on the Minn. state quarter, 2005 P. An extra tree in the center of the coin most likly caused by a slanted die blank. Only pic I could find. borrowed off eBay. I added an arrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Oh dear. Do I bust my roll? Hmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted July 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Selling on eBay for about $100 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Yup. Read about it in either Numismatic News or Coin World. Starting digging out my quarters today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBobo Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Tree error on one quarter, leaf error on another. A trend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Probably added as a prank by a mintmaster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuldFartte Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 Sheesh, not another one I can't believe the "stupid money" being paid for these insignificant die flaws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahabully Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 I can't really see anything in the pic. But I did jump in with both feet when I saw the Wisconsin extra leaf. Got 8 of the early for about 100 per. Have sold 4 of them, and made all my money back.... Still sitting on 1 high leaf and 3 low leafs, all in high MS. I see that thier availability on ebay has dropped significantly and the price for most is around 150 (au) to 200++ (ms) per. In short, I've doubled my money inside a year. Stupid? Given the hugh collector base for these, and if this new one presents potential to become a psydo recognized variety,,,,, hummm........ stupid is as stupid does. Personnally, I enjoy occasionally making money on coins, lord knows I lose enough. That said, I'm not biting on this new one until I see it. And will probably only jump it if: 1 - as stated, it presents signs of being accepted as a variety. 2 - there is an astetic flow between the error and design, as with the high and low leaf. For this one, this extra tree should actually look like a tree vs. a raised lump, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostDutchman Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 it's not stupid to take advantage of a market...that's smart... it's the market itself that is stupid... with the amount of quarters that are made by each pair of working dies these days... they aren't rare compaired to other coins... it's all about the hype that is given to these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted July 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 I found another image on eBay that shows a bit better. This coin sold for $104 Theory is that the high spots on the hub for the tree to the left struck the slanted die blank a half second before it popped into place and the rest of the image was squeezed. So it has the shape of a tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahabully Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 I'm not sure I buy that about the hubbing. Wouldn't we see the effect in other areas of the design also,,, or has someone actually measured the design and found this lump on the tree to left to be the highest point in the reverse design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted July 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 I'm not sure I buy that about the hubbing. Wouldn't we see the effect in other areas of the design also,,, or has someone actually measured the design and found this lump on the tree to left to be the highest point in the reverse design. From the NN article.... It must be understood that the face of the die blank is machined with a slightly conical configuration to aid in the flow of metal during hubbing. This would indicate that the initial kiss of a hub into a die blank would be restricted to this centralized area before continuing on to fill out the rest of the design. During this process, the tip of the die blank would be positioned slightly off location, away from the center of the hub into a differant area of the design than intended- and thus the misplaced area of doubling on the affected die. Its important that the extra tree is directly in the center of the coin....the highest spot on the conical die blank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted August 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 Check your 2005 Mint sets. Some "Extra tree" errors have shown up an are selling for top dollar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted September 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 There are now 28 different versions of the Minn. DD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Jeez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 There are now 28 different versions of the Minn. DD's. That's insane. I've been checking all of my quarters but none so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 I haven't even looked yet. I have so many of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 How much are they going for on eBay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stilson Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 If it does show on some on the satin finish mint set and circulated coinage. Maybe a possible master die problem? Which also may make it a higher mintage one then the leaf ones. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted September 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 How much are they going for on eBay? Some can be had for about $10(DDR#20)The Denver coins from the mint set are over $250. Everything else is in between. The origional DDR#1 were selling around $175-$200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 I read somewhere lately that there are more doubled coins (in all varieties) than there are normal strikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 If that's true, then i'm hitting the jackpot! All the Minnesota coins I've seen are normal! Cha-Ching! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted September 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Now 40 confirmed differant varieties plus an Oregon DD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Could we start a family of threads in the Error and Variety Coin Forum dedicated to state quarters? Then we could keep the Minnesota varieties and pics in their own thread and start a new one for Oregon and its pics. This would allow us to check out our quarters by state instead of searching through threads. I apologize if this idea already exists. I'm sorta new here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted September 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 The pics I've seen of the coins the differences are minor. It would be neat if someone searched the web for as many pics of the different DD's and posted them in a thread in the Error forum. Could be a group effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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