Been through 15 rolls of a new box of quarters today and found this little gem. Never seen one before on the Kisatchie quarter. Seen lots of die breaks around the feet and the bottom of the feathers but this is certainly a strange one. Wondering if I might submit it to John Wexler for his opinion on it. There is PMD below it on the coin so that is the other crease a little farther down you see. These two spots are raised off the surface of the coin. Last pic is of a regular reverse with none of the markings mine has on it.
Die dents of some type looking much like feeder finger damage though that normally should show on the anvil die and these days the obverse is the anvil die . Cool find!
I've never seen that as well. Interesting find thought. Some type of die damage or deterioration. It wouldn't hurt to submit it to John with a picture, jwex@comcast.net Die dent like @Stoneman said: http://www.error-ref.com/die-dent/ I'm assuming the coin is from Philly. They use their dies till they break apart......it seems.
Heard back from John Wexler. He said it appears it's a large die gouge. I still think it's cool and am not finding any others. Would love to find a few more in this box I am searching.
I enjoy finding these anomalies as well. Seems like these modern, State, America the Beautiful, National Park quarters have on-going issues. Here are a few I have found.
Very nice! Wouldn't it be nice if these were rare finds? I've discovered one thing over the years, if it's in my collection it's common!
Rare would be nice, but that ain't the case. I have lots of Kisatchie die cracks under the feet and feathers, lots of the Blue Ridge with die cracks in the same area in varying degrees and used to have a lot of Homesteads with roof die cracks all over, bucket die cracks but have used most of them as replacement when hunting for DDRs.
