Hello all you coin aficionados out there and Welcome to the DC Coin World
International Coin Channel!!! Today we have the 1981 Quarter Dollar Coin from the United States
of America and as most of you know the US quarters
don't say 25 cents anywhere on them they say quarter and they worth a quarter of
a US dollar. When we flip it over, you can actually see that at the bottom it says
right here QUARTER DOLLAR United States of America and E Pluribus Unum with the
eagle holding a band of arrows. Down underneath the arrows you can see the tail and
that's one of the ways you can tell if the coin is in very fine or above condition: the tail is really detailed and each
of the arrows is individualized. Then it's probably in Very Fine or above condition and it is certainly
going to be a better shape than this one. As you can see this quarter is not in great shape. Next we see the
wreath at the bottom. Now what
we're really interested in of course on this particular coin is the front in general and the mint mark in particular. As to the
mint mark. The Philadelphia Mint in 1981 produced a
lot of these coins 601.7 million So, more than half a billion of these
coins were made. And when you make over a half billion of anything the planchets and the stamping press strikes
at the mint make a lot of small mistakes or mini errors and this is one
of the most common ones and this is called the filled P so the 1981 filled P
so it says 1981 here you see Washington facing left Liberty at the top In God We
Trust under his chin and behind his ponytail and the ribbon holding it is a
supposed to be a P and this is called the filled P error version and so when I first
saw this I didn't know much about it so I saw oh wow this is something that
people are going to be excited to see. So I've looked it up on the
internet and they said "NAH" these filled P's you can actually get a mint sets
with these filled P's in them that came from the Philadelphia Mint so this is not
not a big error or not a big mistake coin in fact the Coin Talk websits, there was
somebody on Coin Talk when I looked at the website that said they had 10
or 20 mint sets they looked through and they were all filled Peas
now when I saw this filled P, I started saying okay well maybe that's just this
one coin. But I pulled out another old 1981 and this one's if anything this is worse
that's you you can't even really tell that there's a hole in the P on this
one but one of the things you can see on both of these coins is when they did set
it to put the P on it they did something. I think there was something in between
or something messing it up because it made a dent so can you see that little
dent right around the P as if they hit it so hard it actually indented the coin
around the P so something probably got in between the the planchette and the strike piece got some materials built up on it but
actually pushed so hard it made a little indentation now people say well they're
probably all like that aren't they. And so I want to show you a 1980 and doggone if
the 1980 isn't mostly filled also and this is a 1980 so we got all these
quarters and they're all filled what would a good P look like well a good
P would look something like this look at that can you tell the difference
between that and that our original one so see how that as the pea and it also
looks like it's bigger doesn't it it almost looks like they fixed it there's
a little bit of an indentation there still but that's clearly a P there and
this is clearly at least the letter F or maybe a letter T that got broken off but to say that
that's a letter P is is stretching it a little bit in terms of actually looking at it
and seeing the P on there and maybe if we get it to this angle looks a little
more like a P so what should it look like
well it should something like this 1985 which is a P and
clearly a P instead of a mark and probably a P and this isn't something
that happened afterwards you like I said this is a really well known error or mistake.
What is the value???? NOTHING really There's so many of these even the mint sets with the
filled P don't have much more value than a regular mint set so if you're looking
for these and you want to make the big bucks on them it's not going to happen
but if we look at this one doesn't that it's just I mean I know it's closer to
the camera but it's just a bigger different piece so I'm wondering if they
didn't actually change the P later on because this is not the same size P as
that P and let me let me switch it around so knows what you do with these is
you flip them and put the bottom one on top and see if it's just is this is
still a size difference and there still is isn't there we put this one on the
bottom further away from the camera and this was still smaller so I think what
happened was between 1981 and 1985 they actually changed it to make the P
actually come out better because they had so many from 80 in 81 83 it looked
better but see so here's 81 here's 85 and here's 83 somewhere in the middle so
it almost looks like they might have fixed it twice let's put them in order
81 83 and 85 all right so this looks like a the same version as this except
you can actually see the P so they cleaned it up and this looks just like a
different P so when you start looking at these coins you're gonna find these
errors sometimes or the mistakes that the mint made or that that just got when
they when you do something and make 601.7 million of them some of
them and those were only the ones when I say they made 601.7 million
though are the ones they put into circulation
I don't know how many of them they kept aside or recycled or whatever but
clearly they made so many kind of filled P's from 80 and 81 they just decided
we're just going to put them out anyway and they put them out and it's fun to
find them but they aren't worth anything so if you have a bunch of filled P's
like I do, use them to buy something else put them all together and use them to
buy you a more expensive more collectible coin so that's all we have
today from a DC Coin World International Coin Channel about the 1981
filled P quarter
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