Hello guys....rather than make various posy over time. I held onto a few coins I have come across while roll hunting and I was hoping to get a bit of help to see if they were error coins or just post damage bunk.
Hi Exodus. The first set of coins look to be spooned or edge hammered coins aka Dryer Coins. The Quarter has environmental damage. Maybe was buried then found with a metal detector
i tend to dis agree with the state hood quarter simply because when the quarter was released i was roll hunting and found a few like this from , comes from either worn dies or either struck through grease, i think one i have as extra fating on the letters and grease staines, will try to find it and snap a few pics, the 1997 washington quarter is odvious , strong enviro damage but retains copper bleed on the edges on this you need to get a examination of the edge, and its recession level is it raised up on the obverse the first cent that one lookes broad-strike thorough grease, but it can be duplicated through some heinous ways
No... That is no way a Struck Through Grease. Look at the way the rim edge is worn away. Simply Post Mint Damage
I looked through the dryer pictures that were linked on here and compared it against the cent. It indeed looks like a dryer penny that was just damaged. I am still taking a closer look at the quarters and the info provided by the rest of the users on here, which is greatly appreciated. I am still a bit curious over the quarters, the CoNN state quarter is looking more like dryer damage the more I look at it. Though the 1997, not positive in any way, but looking a bit of a die cap unless, someone tried to do it by hand somehow. The last quarter in the holder I thought may have been a missing clad coin, but isn't there a way to remove the clad via acids?
PMDs and the last one WAS DUG I "dirt fish" myself and have had a couple like it recently.Sorry.......
Thanks swamp, I didn't even think about that. Though after I read the message I sat down to compare against various other dirt hunt coins. I then realized the first pics I uploaded were complete crap, looking over the pics, it made it look mushy and nasty much like a dirt hunt coin. I sat down, set up some more lighting to better catch the details. I know I could still be wrong on this, but I noticed that most dirt hunt coins have a decent amount of damage a lot of the times. The details on either obv or rev tend to have some scratches or chips and chinks, which this one doesn't. Last is the fine detail along the hair obv bust and breast of the eagle, even in dirt / mud I feel like the oxidation process would have removed at least some of the detail and not have kept such fine detail. Again, I know that I could still be wrong on this, but what do you guys think with the new pics?
As I am a dirt fisher, dirt hunter, dirt digger myself, I noticed over the years the many differences of environmental damage on quarters. So the answer to your question is simple. Depending on the type of dirt, sand or soil you will have different kinds of appearances. Also the amount of time buried is a factor affecting the look. I have a Whites Classic 5ID
Also to take into consideration is when the quarter was lost and buried, what was its condition at that moment. In other words an old circulated quarter would look worse coming out of the ground than a fairly recent quarter in much better condition with greater details.
That is true, as the date is still from the 90's, being buried wouldn't have caused as much damage as it would have if it were a coin buried for a longer period of time. No harm done, all part of the learning process, which I thank you for sharing with me
This is a picture I took a few months ago of 25 quarters I dug up in a detecting hunt (I go detecting at least twice a week) I wanted to show the different types of environmental damage. Some were in compacted soil almost claylike and others in loose dirt/soil such as a playground or baseball field. Depending on the soil type, amount of time buried and weather conditions are all factors in a buried coins appearance. I have hundreds of dug up quarters.
Actually if you are recommended to post it elsewhere, you can contact a mod and ask them to move the thread. Don't have to post twice on one. (And while this is good advice, I will probably mess up in the future and do that, and then someone will pull this advice up and throw it in my face. But still.....)
Well, I replied to exodus's thread in the roll-hunting section, but I'll post again here - I found my Connecticut state quarter that looks like his, excepting mine has a full rim. I found this not long after the quarter was released (don't have an exact time - a year at most)
