Mint’s Error Makes Some Quarters Collectors’ Items
From Associated Press
NEW YORK —
Coin experts say that some 1989 quarters could be worth hundreds of dollars each because the U.S. Mint unwittingly struck an unknown number of them without a mint mark.
Readers of the Numismatic News, a weekly based in Iola, Wis., sent in two 1989 quarters missing the mint mark, the New York Times reported.
A spokesman for Stack’s, a New York coin dealer, said that such coins could be worth between $250 and $1,000 each, based on the value of other coins with similar errors.
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