what is going on with this quarter?

I found a 1970d quarter in a roll today with a copper edge and a really thin layer of clad. What could have caused this?

 

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I know this.. that was not minted that way. PMD - Post Mint Damage

 

Could it have been rolling around on the back wall
of a washer or dryer perhaps?

 

Could it have been rolling around on the back wall
of a washer or dryer perhaps?

 

Vegas baby

 

Sure looks like a dryer coin to me....

 

This can't be a dryer coin. How could a dryer taper one side of the edge so perfectly without ever affecting the other side of the edge? Think about it!

PMD!

Chris

 

Yup, looks like a train wheel. Not minted that way. Not a dryer coin. Someone, for reasons unknowable, took the time to alter that quarter.

 

Your the only one that caught that, maybe its a spare wheel . Lol ...

 

I also thought, maybe from a slot machine too ..

 

so yes, altered, but how, now I want to know how, that beveled edge seems too perfect to be done by hand, wonder how?

 

Maybe it came out of jewellery ...

 

It may have got stuck in a counting machine.

 

SANDER

 

Thanks everyone. The edge of the coin is even all the way around the coin with a slight slant towards washington.Also in liberty there are metal pieces between the letters.

I just thought it was a neat looking coin so I decided to keep it.

 

I did think about it and I agree PMD.
And no disrespect meant but I have seen washers & dryers where the tabs/flanges of the drum (that of what bolts to the back plate) that has a deep enough groove to hold coins in said groove and if the coin made lots and lots of revolutions it could very well create a coin just like this one.

Is this what happened??? nobody will know for sure.

 

Let's assume that the coin did get caught in a groove of the drum. If it was loose enough to roll around 360 degrees, then it should be loose enough to fall out of the groove. If it was tight enough to remain in the groove, then it shouldn't rotate to cause such wear. The dryer theory just doesn't hold water. Pun intended!

Chris