I received this in change a short time ago and I set it aside. I just had the opportunity to look at it more closely and it’s a keeper. It shows circulation west and year and it has its bumps and bruises so to speak. But I got it in change so they are still out there. A 1999-P Delaware Quarter. Yes, that’s Paul Revere riding his horse to warn that the British were coming. Only on this coin his horse is spitting. It has a very mild, a light die crack in the known space. I have another one that’s strong so it’s nice to get one when the crack started to appear. You can see it in the second photo, if you know where to look. The closeup of the horses mouth and CAESAR RODNEY clearly show.
Well, as long as you all are curious, it's a myth. We sometimes bleed through the nostrils when we run too fast. They give Lasix to such "bleeders," as they're known around the stables. The blood gets on the jockey's goggles and they can't see where they're going, that's why. But we don't spit. That is to say, when we run, we don't spit. Thus, the depiction in the coin, I'm sorry to say, is inaccurate. If it was coming out of our nostrils, arguably depicting blood, that would be accurate. But if we don't like you, we'll spit at you, that's been known to happen. Hope this helps.
If you ever watched John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn he rides that little horse of the girl holding her. He literally runs that horse to death and that poor horse was drooling quite heavily. To a horse are spitting and drooling different?
