1986 D U.S. Quarter die error. What do you guys think?

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No, that's just heavy damage. The biggest clue that the circular impression area is damage is that the area opposite on the reverse is flattened. If this happened while it was in the dies this wouldn't happen.

 

Definitely Damaged.
Looks like what would happen if someone used as a screwdriver. Just a strange theory.

 

More photos please.

 

Definitely damaged

 

Lawnmower or garbage disposal.

 

More Denver Mint garbage - I hate when they put out trash like this!

Seriously, I would like to see more pics, preferably with an electron microscope.

Since you already stated it is an "error", what kind of "error" would you propose this is??

 

@Alexander Garcia
That's what I call DEFDAM - Definitely Damaged. That alteration occured after it left US Mint.

Not a mint error of any kind unfortunately.

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Excellent description of damage . Thanks...like to learn.

 

It's a spender. Although I don't think I'd try using it in a vending machine.

 

@Alexander Garcia
Where are you? Did you quit?

Donde estas?

 

Just me here. I think therefore I exist.

 

The coin led a very hard life before someone smacked a reeded coin on top of it with a large hammer.

 

How is this post manufacturing damage when you can clearly see the ridges from another coin?

 

Exactly! Another coin and a vise

 

No way! A vise or a hammer would only flatten the metal. The edge is clearly folded up like it was caught in a die. Make sense?

 

Yes, the edge is folded up, that is just further damage after the area was flattened. Caught in a die, doesn't make sense if you understand the minting process. You came asking for opinions and got the same answer from several very experienced numismatists.

 

Buddy, that is an altered quarter. It was damaged after it was minted. You will never convince any of us that it a mint error.

 

I’m by no means a n expert but I have been a collector all my life and that is damaged. If you watched a video on how coins are made you would easily see that there is no way for a coin to be minted in this condition.

 

I can make one of those. How many do you want? I'd of course expect to get paid a premium over face value, I wouldn't do it for nothing.