Is there something wrong with this quarter

Discussion in 'Error Coins' started by Excessiveego, Nov 19, 2015.

  1. Excessiveego

    Excessiveego New Member

    I dumped a bunch of change into the coin machine at the bank and it kicked this quarter out. It feels heavier and wider in the hand and comparing it to another quarter it is definitely thicker to the eye. IMG_20151119_170459099.jpg IMG_20151119_170449487.jpg IMG_20151119_170430098.jpg
     
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  3. Markus1959

    Markus1959 Well-Known Member

    Looks like sombody hammered the edge for som reason
     
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  4. Excessiveego

    Excessiveego New Member

    Definitely looks stamped that way, I could never hammer something so precisely. Holds no real value to me as my only interests are antique foreign and domestic coins. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't worth more than $.25 to someone before I spent it.
     
  5. pennsteve

    pennsteve Well-Known Member

    Another spooned coin. Hold the coin between finger and thumb, then strike along the edge with a spoon to flatten it down. Eventually it gets wider and wider and then you drill out the center, file it, sand it, and you have a ring. Silver is usually used for this, but some people try it with modern quarters and realize it's way too much work.
     
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  6. Markus1959

    Markus1959 Well-Known Member

    Indeed!
     
  7. 19Lyds

    19Lyds Member of the United States of Confusion

    Spoon?

    How about using a small tack hammer instead. It shortens the work time but accomplishes the same thing.
     
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  8. pennsteve

    pennsteve Well-Known Member

    A spoon gives a better and more even result. I have a friend who used to make them.
     
  9. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    Chances are it's an early-stage dryer coin. Kids aren't that bored any more and convicts no longer use cash most places. We know no Mint process could create it.
     
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  10. pennsteve

    pennsteve Well-Known Member

    The only way I could see a dryer doing something like this is if the coin was on it's edge rolling in the drum as the dryer spins (even then I doubt it) BUT, every dryer I've ever seen has those ridges to keep the clothes from just sliding along the drum, so, a coin wouldn't be able to roll inside the drum as it spins. Tell me how a dryer would do something like this? It was pounded, probably with a spoon. I'm starting to think that this whole "dryer coin" thing is a joke that someone made up after pounding a coin and having someone ask how it got that way. "Clothes dryer."
     
  11. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    The weight of a ton of evidence - I've probably seen hundreds of different ones over the years, just in the fora where I participate - and the folks who have recovered them themselves - tends to govern my view of the thing. Too many similar coins, too strong a history of progression shown in too many examples to deny that some regular phenomenon doesn't exist.

    Contemplate how long it takes to spoon a late-stage coin. Years, and we've seen dozens upon dozens. Yet, with the perseverence that would indicate, we see very few completed rings as a result. Makes no sense to stop the job at 80%. I don't believe this stuff to be that manually-generated, although I'd cheerfully listen to an alternate machine theory to a dryer.
     
  12. pennsteve

    pennsteve Well-Known Member

    It doesn't take years to spoon a coin. lol.
     
  13. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    See how the ridge or the reeds of the Quarter is flattened out? Hammered :yack:
    You can see it clearly on your 2nd and 3rd picture
     
  14. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    Not if you've got 8 hours a day to spend on it. How many have you done, to be so sure?
     
  15. Rick Stachowski

    Rick Stachowski Motor City Car Capital

    Not all worn reeding is cause from spooning .
    I've been to a lot of coin show and don't forget about slot machine . They can cause the same effect ....
     
  16. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    I just moved after twenty years in Atlantic City, where such quarters are still commonplace in circulation years after the casinos went paper-only. They're worn with almost mechanical precision from the outside in, but do not expand at the rim.
     
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  17. swamp yankee

    swamp yankee Well-Known Member

    I don't see any of the "reeding" that should be there,you? This means the edge was pounded down until smooth somehow....
     
  18. Rick Stachowski

    Rick Stachowski Motor City Car Capital

    I just wanted everyone to also know, what a slot machine can do to the reeding too .....
     
  19. anderspud

    anderspud Active Member

    You have to consider that coins become thinner the longer they are in ordinary. circulation. I've noticed this when I try to roll culls: the height of the roll is noticeably shorter.
     
  20. pennsteve

    pennsteve Well-Known Member

    The edges on that coin are pushed up (widened), meaning it was pounded. Either with a spoon or small hammer.
     
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