1983 Quarter Struck on Amusement Park Token

Not mine... I probably will never own it... but WOW!

http://www.moderncoinmart.com/1983-p-washington-25c-mint-error-overstruck-on-a-struck-amusement-token-ngc-ms65-mint-state-65.html

 

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how the heck would something like that even come to be? cool piece :thumb:

 

WOW, now that is cool!!!

How the heck did that get into the planchett supply? A bored Mint Employee maybe??? Or someone having fun at the Planchett factory???

 

Wow simply awesome

 

That would be my guess.

 

Creative Press Operator who knew a guy that paid premiums for US Mint Errors?

 

It'll be a "lucky day" for the seller...$18,000!

 

un-freaking real!

 

I love it that the token says THIS IS MY LUCKY DAY I have bought from MCM and have been happy with prices and service.

 

I am pretty sure that was a created error by an opportunistic mint employee. Slip it out and wait a few years and sell it for beaucoup dosh.

 

Looks like that stuff was struck over the top of a quarter.

 

Then why would it be that color?

 

Where there is an alchemist, there is a way.

 

Other way around... The token was struck first by the token company and then later fed into a coining press where it was over struck by the quarter dies.

No alchemy going on here... Just a brass token

 

this thing don't even come close to looking real to me and because it is slabbed don't make it real. it real coin dies had struck this piece at the mint I'm thinking there would have been more of the tokens design wiped out by the coin dies. also how did RTY of liberty get up so close to the coins rim ? something would have had to have pushed the rim over after struck by the obv. die in my opinion.

 

I could say the same about a certain squeeze job cent slabbed as a "clash"...

 

By law, a token cannot be the same size as a quarter. This one was slightly undersized, which results in "LIBERTY" being closer to the rim. Also, the token was slightly offset from the center of the die.

 

Makes you think what the mint workers do for fun while on the job

 

This coin has been around for a LONG time, and I believe Mike Diamond has seen it. Here's some more info:

http://www.goldbergcoins.net/catalogarchive/20001002/chp0097.shtml

 

Bingo!

I think the design HAS been wiped out in the fields and the token was circulated and wht your are seeing the "dirt" outline of the design. Kind of like how the design of the cent is still visible on the back of an elongated cent. The surface is completely smooth and the design has been completely flattened.....but it is still visible.

possible the token was very slightly smaller than a quarter. The rim the LIBERTY is overlapping is the rim of the token.