Quarter struck on a nickle planchet?

My son found this coming today that appears to be a quarter struck on a nickel planchet. The coin had a raised edge on the head side only and most of the details are worn away or never existed correctly. It weighs 4.3 grams. Any ideas?

 

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what makes you think it was struck on a nickel planchet?

The coin looks like PMD to me.

If you think about how these coins are manufactured, a quarter struck on a nickel planchet wouldn't have a raised rim, it wouldn't have enough metal to complete the strike at all.

 

Mike, I don't know Jack about coins which is why I'm reaching out for information. PMD? I don't know what that means. Penny of Mass destruction?? Haha. Seriously I have no clue. The raised edge is higher on the left and hardly there on the right.

 

Bbaaaaadddddd! Altered coin!

 

PMD= Post Mint Damage

In other words, it was a regular quarter, and someone did this to it

 

PMD Stands for "post mint damage", which is what happened to this coin. Sorry for the bad news.

 

First, welcome to the neighborhood!

It's hard for me to tell anything based on those photos. I'd need better close-ups of the coin in question.

By the way, PMD means "post-mint damage".

Chris

 

I'm not dissapointed, just curious. How was this altered and why is the font bigger?

 

It's a quarter struck on a quarter planchet that has undergone damage since it left the Mint. "PMD" means "Post-Mint Damage."

 

I'm not sold on this just yet. Note that you can see a rim on the reverse. If it was "spooned" both rims would be about the same size. Wouldn't they? I need better close-ups.

Chris

 

Chris

 

Why does the sun keep on shining? Why does the sea rush to shore? Don't they know, it's the end of the worl-how the hell do we know?

 

Chris

 

With the visible copper core, it's definitely not a nickel planchet.

 

That's kind of the point, Chris. If the planchet was a nickel (undersized) the rim wouldn't be present.

 

it may have been a coin that someone was making into a ring, then stpped making it. Try weighing it

 

4.3 grams

 

Please take the photos of both sides from directly overhead, not at an angle. Try to take the photos as close as possible without blocking out the light. Then crop out the extraneous background and re-size the image. When you upload the photo, click on "Full Frame" rather than "Thumbnail".

Chris

 

If they were making a ring, how could the rim on the obverse end up larger than the rim on the reverse?

Chris

 

looks like someone had started to make it into a ring by "spooning" it/hammer the edge inward and then stopped.