20th Anniversary WI Extra Leaf Low & High Quarters PCGS MS65

Description: 20th Anniversary WI Extra Leaf Low & High Quarters PCGS MS65 20th Anniversary WI Extra Leaf Low & High Quarters PCGS MS65 2004-D 25C WI-Extra Leaf Set SKU: TheLordProvidesSetMS65 Special 20th Anniversary Special. Two-coin set. Wisconsin Extra Leaf Quarter set. High Leaf and Low Leaf PCGS MS65 From "The Lord Provides" collection. These are from a special purchase of coins found by a Tucson family 20 years ago when these coins were first discovered. They marketed some at the time on eBay as the seller "Lord Provides." Recently they sold their remaining coins to us and we are now able to offer them to you. These are outstanding uncirculated coins graded MS65. Finally solved! How they were made! These die errors, now known as an Added Design Element variety (ADE-001, ADE-002) have been long-discussed as to how they were created. It is now known, and can be conclusively proven, that these added elements were put on the dies by a Denver Mint employee who had access to the die manufacturing room. Numerous theories have been put forward: The first theory, put out by the Mint itself, soon after these were discovered, was that this was caused by a clashed die (A “come together” in Mint terms). This is obviously a misdirection by the Mint as there is no clear design element from an opposing die that could make these marks. A second theory is that dropped screw caused the circular marks. This is disproven by the fact that these added elements show clear signs of being added while the die was soft. The proof is in in a close up images of the added design elements. Lets look first at the Low Leaf. It shows two raised elements above the cheese and to the left of the corn. Below the bottom element is a sloping depression in the field. This is the most important thing to make note of. A depression on the coin is a raised field on the die. This rise in the field can ONLY be caused when a die is in its softened state. When the field of the die was impacted by the circular object, likely a small nut driver, the soft metal was pushed up around it. This does not happen to hardened steel dies. As both alternate theories mentioned above involve a hardened die, they cannot be considered. The High Leaf variety shows the same circular design element but in a different position. As there is only one impact made and it is lighter than the Low Leaf, it did not push up the soft metal on the die as much. An electron microscope measurement shows that there is actually some deformation in the field to the right of the design element. Again, the field could not deform like this after the die was hardened and put in the press. Finally proven! How many were made! According to the internal Mint investigation from June 21, 2005, the Extra Leaf dies were put into two of the presses on a Friday night shift. It was late November, 2004. A bank of five presses strike the quarters and they flow into a single huge hopper. The coins are loaded into a balistic bag and shipped to the rolling facility in Utah. Soon after the presses started the coins were checked and the Extra leaf coins were discovered by the pressman. He shut off the two presses and took the dies out and put them on the shelf of the press. He then went to lunch. Upon returning, he discovered the dies back in the presses and they were running again. He turned them off and told a supervisor. It is estimated that between 35,000 and 50,000 were struck while he was at lunch. These were comingled with regular coins and shipped out. The remaining coins after the second discovery was made were retrieved and destroyed. The initial investigation was made on February 21 and 24, 2005. At that time the Die Shop Chief; Quality Assurance Chief, Quality Assurance Supervisor, Die Setter and Shift Coordinator agreed that the error was not the cause of a "Come Together" or die clash. However, someone who is blanked out on the report says that he was told by the die setter that these were caused by a "Come Together", but also said that he had not personally examined the dies. Today, 20 years later we can tally up the amount of coins graded by PCGS, NGC, ANACS and ICG to get a good idea of the number of coins found. My tally shows about 25,000 High Leaf and 30,000 Low leaf coins found in MS condition. This is the same overall rarity as the 1955 Doubled die cent and the 1937-D 3-legged Buffalo nickel. Although the average grade of those coins are not MS grades, but XF to AU. The 20th Anniversary of the discovery by Bob Ford. It was December 11, 2004. It was the find of a lifetime! For 15 years, Bob Ford, a retired Highway Patrolman from Tucson, Arizona, had occupied his free time looking through his local bank's coin rolls. He regularly came up with unusual die cracks and other minor errors that he sold on ebay. He also would regularly go through the local dealers bulk silver and wheat cents looking for better dates. On December 11th, 2004, Bob went to his local bank and requested the current issues from the State-Quarter issue - Wisconsin. Tucson gets its coins from the Denver Mint, so all the coins Bob got were from that Mint. After checking though 4 rolls, Bob noticed that there were extra leafs on some of the coins. Very interesting to say the least! He went though the previously searched rolls and found a few more of the odd coins. Bob found two distinct varieties; both had extra leaves, or more properly "husks" off the lower left of the corn on the design. One has a single "leaf" pointing upward; the other has a wider "leaf" curling downward. With a few of these coins in hand, Bob took them to Rob Weiss of Old Pueblo Coin in Tucson. Rob and his employee, Ben Weinstein were impressed with the varieties and tried to get some information from the Mint as to their cause. The Mint was, it seems, as dumbfounded as everyone else. Ron Harrigal, Mint assistant for design, research and development said in a Mint statement; "We believe they are deep gouges in the coin blanks that did not fully coin out." Apparently they did not notice that the elements in question were raised, not sunk in the coin. The story was released to Coin World in the January 10th issue of Coin World, just as the nations dealers and collectors were descending on the 50th annual Florida United Numismatists (F.U.N.) Convention in Ft. Lauderdale. PCGS # 814033/914033 Grading Service PCGS Grade MS65 Mint Location Denver Year 2004 Designation Strike Business Grade Add On NONE PDS Grade Payment We only accept Managed Payments on eBay, this means you can rest assured your order will be with you ASAP after your purchase. For your security we only ship your order to the address you provide us via PayPal. Shipping As soon as you pay, eBay & Managed Payments will email you to let you know it's been received and as soon as we've shipped your order, we'll let you know by email that it has been shipped and the tracking number, if applicable. Returns "We want you to be 100% happy with your purchase and offer a 30 day "no quibble" guarantee" If you change your mind, or the purchase is not suitable, you may notify us to cancel the contract within 30 days after the day of receipt of item(s) and you have a duty to take reasonable care of the item(s) until we receive the item(s) back. Return shipping costs will be at your expense. 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Location: Tucson, Arizona

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