Is this a mint error, Front Clad missing? Bicentennial Quater

Found this in change back, Have posted on another forum , they seem to think that it could be painted or left the mint normal,not sure my self, It doesn't seem painted to me , but Im still new and it would seem like the CUDs at the bottom would be smother if painted?
what do you guys think?

 

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@DUSITN HADDOCK

Two things:

1) I don't think that is a cud at 6 o'clock. It looks like PMD, but could you show me a photo of the same position on the reverse? I'd like to see if there is any damage in the 12 o'clock position.

2) I can't tell if it is painted or not, but it definitely does not look like it is missing the clad layer. The core would be copper, so why are there silvery scratches on the obverse?

Chris

 

the scratch that reveals silver colored metal makes me think that it IS painted.

If the copper layer was half of the coin (as seen from the edge), then the scratch would have revealed more copper.

Just my 2¢

 

I'm looking at it really good and I don't think they are scratches. Looks like clad strips that are left over. Somehow the clad was removed.. look at the 7 in 1976. It has a tiny bit of clad also.

 

I said "scratch" but it could also be an abrasion of some sort. Note that they align in an arc which is about the same as the arc of the damage from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock along the rim. Note: I'm not sure about the silvery marks in the right hand field. I'd like to see a better close-up of that area.

Chris

 

It actually looks like the obverse was painted.

 

Drop it in some acetone. If it is painted the paint will come off. Whatever happened to the coin is post mint damage.

 

One other thing. That isn't the zipper part of your pants is it? In the last pic.

 

In your title.. How is it that you spelled the word Bicentennial correctly but can't spell Quarter?

 

IMO
Looks like a rusted quarter that was recovered from the ground with a metal detector, and was struck with a trowel in recovery scratching the obverse.

 

YES, but not of the ones i was wearing lol.

Attention I owe...

I'm gonna try this

 

What does it weigh? If it's got a missing clad layer it should be 4.8g.

 

weighed in at 5.39 grams

 

Not a missing clad layer then. Too heavy.

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Thanks for posting the photo of the reverse. Unfortunately, I'm unable to draw any conclusions from it.

Chris

 

I was thinking paint now too but acetone didn't remove anything other than grime?

 

A clad quarter is supposed to be 5.67g. A clad quarter without cladding on one face is 4.80g, meaning the clad layer by itself is 0.87g. For this to weigh 5.39g it would need to have about 67.8% of the clad layer present on the obverse. Even if those couple thin strips were remnants of a separated clad layer, there is nowhere near 67.8% of it present on the coin. So it's slightly underweight (perhaps some missing material on the obverse from the damage present), but looks like PMD.

 

did the acetone bath take any color off?