Last week's edition of The E-Sylum highlighted David Lisot's 2005 video of thescintillating meeting led by Sid Kass and Fred Weinberg about the history and progress of error-coin collecting in this country. Entitled: the video wasvery enjoyable and informative. What a wonderful video archive David Lisot built up at ANAconventions and other meetings before his untimely passing.

The evolution of error-coin collecting has had such a dramatic impact on the hobby. No one has been more important for popularizing that endeavor than Bill Fivaz and the late J.D.Stanton, thanks to their wonderful series of . It was good to see Mr.Fivaz in that video, then obviously in his vigorous early 70s, bantering with others in theaudience.

As the E-Sylum recently reported, Mr. Fivaz this year observed his 90th birthday,surrounded by dozens of family members and friends. That was where he reportedly thankedeveryone for helping him Delightful.

I was fascinated to hear Mr. Weinberg report on his purchase in the mid-1960s of thattrove of around 2000 error coins for $60,000. He said that fully two-thirds of them wentrelatively quickly for a total of between $2 million and $4 million, when the collection was brokenup and the coins were sold separately.

The videoed meeting discussed the unexpected production a year earlier of the twounauthorized 2004-D Wisconsin quarters, the so-called High-Leaf and Low-Leaf varieties.Participants in the meeting speculated on the ability of the United States Mint to get to thebottom of the creation and production of those two unauthorized varieties.

Some years ago, I bought PCGS-graded MS 65 examples of both varieties. I wonderedwhether the US Department of the Treasury ever got to the bottom of that so Iphoned Rick Snow of Eagle Eye Rare Coins in Tucson, Arizona, from whom I bought my twoquarters. Rick has been offering the coins on his web site for some time, and he told me thegovernment has never been able to figure out who was behind the creation and production ofthose coins.

Rick added that there is a 2004-D Roosevelt dime variety which is also suspected ofhaving been created by the same anonymous Denver Mint employee(s). That coin is illustratedin the Sixth Edition, Volume II, of the at the top of page 117. The Guidenotes: It then states:

Thanks, as always, for the good reporting.

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
CLUB CELEBRATES BILL FIVAZ 90TH BIRTHDAY(https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n08a13.html)
VIDEO: EARLY DAYS OF THE ERROR COIN HOBBY(https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n18a08.html)