Suspected coin with VARIATION by CaptBrian1

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Once in a rare while, you find one, a rareish or fun coin

 

While I do look hard for coins that are special or rarish, I was not looking for a quarter with a variation. I was simply bumbling along after purchasing a load of silver change, and as I go to coin shows and sometimes get a booth, I am always on the hunt for a rainbow of value so I can at least have a conversation with the entire spectrum of collectors. In January at the F.U.N. Show, I took with me a few wheat pennies. I don't collect them, but go through all coins that I come across in my daily life. I keep the wheat pennies on the side, and had 23 of them which I sold to a child for $0.25. I did not have two cents so I simply traded, and he was happy. Using the same idea for the silver coins, I was, for the first time, looking strongly at the quarters because of the 89 I bought, many were very shiny. Suspecting inmproper cleaning, I looked at them thru a magnifying loop, and decided to look them up in the NGC explanations. There I stumbled upon the 1964 with the variation explanation, so that set me to looking for one as several of them were 1964 quarters. Anyway, that is how I found one. I will do my best to put up a picture here. Now, what do I do with it? Is it worth grading, and adding to my collection? Keep it in the flip holder I put it in and offer it at a coin show, or what? Any suggestions? Advice is elicited, and let me know. This one is a 1959 P model.

Capt. Brian

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[jayman1970]

That is a type B reverse.You can find that reverse on some 56-64 Philadelphia mint quarters.It is a combination of an obverse die for circulation coins and a used proof reverse die.Some carry a small premium,depending on year and grade.

 

 

 

Jason