Spectacular coin error or what?

Does anyone have any ideas on what is going on with this quarter? 1999 state quarter error



Does this look like it prestruck and then struck in collar? There is a holographic like image of lincoln when you twist the coin in a good light source.

 

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The quarter is post mint damage, looks like it was done with a pair of wire cutters. Don't know about the cent.

 

You have to look close at the six oclock pos. where the metal seems to be struck up almost enough to create the rim on the reverse the rim is almost complete and the fin starts from the inside corner of the rim.

 

I know you don't want to hear the truth... but neither of these happened at the mint.

 

The quarters rim is misaligned on both sides of the coin (wider on one side very thin on the other).When you look at the cuts with a 60x microscope it looks like metal flowed up almost making a rim but at such a slant it would rule cutter for the most part. Look nbetween QUARTER /\and/\ DOLLAR. some of the cuts have a flat specaled valley at the bottom of the cuts.

 

The quarter is slightly off center but the cuts were done after it left the mint. Sorry.

 

Is there any other examples of coins like this?

 

The quarter has been hit with a blade or some type of wire cutter if it's on both sides. No way it's an error. Sorry.

Not sure about the cent. I can't see anything in the pic.

 

Took me a minute to find one off center but I made one.

 

I have tried to duplicate these cuts with snips and garden sheers when i do the flat surface of the coin usually rises up one one side of the cut and the quarter doesnt show this. Im using a 60x - 100x microscope and can see that any cut i make rises the flat part of the coin and i couldnt get anything to start mid rim and end into the surface of the coin

 

all of the cut seem to have a flat bottom when looking through a microscope. all of the cuts make a gutter to the outside edge except one which shows better on the reverse.

 

I fully, without hesitation, agree.

Ditto.....we all would love to find 'something'...thats why we go through rolls, pocket change, your friends change jar....but very very rarely do we find 'it'. Unfortunately, you haven't found anything but coins with PMD.

 

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has anyone seen coins like this before? and what if it was Pre MD?

 

Its a 1999 Delaware state quarter.

 

just kidding im not selling it.

 

me so sowwi...pmd fo sho!
somebody got pretty bored and destroyed the coin

 

You can make as many examples as you like. All you need is a supply of quarters and a pair of snips or wire cutters.

 

maybe a bored machinist I guess.

 

none of the examples I made look the same under a microscope. All the cuts I make raise the flat backround part of the coin slanting away from the cut. The delaware quarter doesnt have this on any of the cuts. The one cut at 6 oclock obvrese if you look close has a slanted flow of metal rising up to the rim/edge of the coin. this tells me it couldnt be done with linesman snips. I have used tin snips, garden sheers, knifes, siccors and some random other things none of them looked quite the same expecially when you look through a microscope.