Theres no ridges on this quarter

1968 Washington quarter. It has a smooth edge all the way around. No ridges at all. Does anyone know what this is?

 

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It won't let me upload more pics. Idk why. But I also found another just like it but it's a 2012 Alaska quarter

 

Your coin has either been spooned or is just suffering from circulation damage. Not an error.

 

What's spooned?

 

The edge was hammered or spooned to eliminate the ridge

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/dryer-coin-vs-spooned-coin.304963/

 

Probably spooned.

 

remember that whether accidental or on purpose that people and machines can create an unlimited amount of unlimited types or unlimited instances of damage to a coin.

If you learn the minting process, you'll realize that a coin minting process has a collar which will have the edge design on the coin. If that collar is not there or is loose, etc then the coin will have certain visual characteristics. Which you could then know that your coin is not related to a collar issue ...

 

Haha are u serious?

 

Yes I am. They do this to make rings. They drill out the center and the flat edge is what's left.

Also.. Some people do it on purpose just to damage the coin and make new collectors think they are errors

Your Quarter looks like normal circulation wear after so many years..

Trust me. I won't lead you astray.

 

this is the cheap, unrefined way to make a quarter coin ring, but you can see the spooning to smooth the edge.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-silver-ring-for-25-cents/
but this slow, manual process listed above few people finish. It's a novelty at first, then simply forget it.

There are much more quicker methods to create rings from any coin, but requires some capital to get the correct tools.

Many time, they leave the edge too


A friend of mine makes rings from coins. Everything from your fine Morgan Dollars, to walking liberty halves, etc. He uses more expensive coins in order to maintain a certain profitability and "rarity" versus a modern quarter lol Before you ask, yes, he also uses AGEs.

 

I was trying to find one of my "test" rings from a Walking Liberty Half to show you from my buddy. But, alas, I cannot find it. When I first tried it on I had forgotten that I was allergic to silver and my finger immediately swell, and I had to put soap on it immediately to get it off over my knuckle. Ugh.

Yes, I sent common, higher quality WLHs for him to test on
when I find it, I'll post a pic for everyone to complain about although he left the edge.

 

There are also casino coins that have been rolled into machines over and over and landing on their edges in the tills for years on end. In areas where there are casinos, quarters, half dollars, and dollars are all plentiful with the reeded edges worn or hammered off.

 

One guy had a prisoner's coin ( no ridges) he swore an inmate used to tap code on the drainpipe. It is amazing some of the stories you will read here. Even one guy with a coin that he received from a visiting space alien. Jim

 

I think his quarter is more from wear, than spooning as furryfrog mentioned.
but just edukating the OP about spooning.

 

I am more inclined to believe the pipe tapping than the alien story, only because I don't believe that any respectable alien would give a quarter to visit this place.

 

This happens in coin operated laundered as well. Many coins get recirculated into the change machine. The edge takes a bit every time it drops into the coin box

Regardless the cause, it's not unusual to see coins like this and the did not leave the mint without the reeding. They are damaged coins and not mint errors

 

Yes he is. Spooning is a reality. Some people do it to make an error while others do it to make rings.