It feels a lot lighter than an average quarter. The face is barely stamped on and you can see the copper around the edge. The back is blank in the middle. The edge is only slightly raised, if at all. Maryland. Year 2000.
Less, because a machine won't take it now that someone intentionally mangled it. Less, because the effort you use to convince a merchant or bank teller to accept it will cost you extra time you could have used to make money.
Thats what I was afraid of. got it back in some change and know nothing of coins so just thought Id ask. Thanks!
Someone was probably trying to make a 2 headed/tails coin out of it but got carried away a little bit. They put it in a lathe and hollow it out then cut down another coin to fit inside. Commonly call a magicians coin.
Basically someone was able to pass it back to you. About the only way that you can get rid of it with value would be to have it when you pay for something that also has a take one penny/give one penny change holder near the cashier. Sometimes you see a couple dimes and nickel, etc. and they generally don't care if you exchange one coin for others or to wrap it in a quarter roll and use it as part of a roll given to the bank. But I get rolls in CRH that have foreign or such coins in there and I don't do that. The worst I had once was about 3 dollars in Canadian quarters in a 10 dollar roll of quarters. I simply took them out and did not pass them on. Usually the amount of 'loss' in bad coins is very low, and occasionally I get an extra quarter or dime in a roll somewhere, like when I get dimes in cent rolls. It almost always is a low amount so that over time, perhaps I have lost 10 dollars at the max in coins that could not be used in regular change in most cases, and that is over 10 years worth of CRH. I could have rolled them up and passed them on, but that is not really right for the next customer. So, since I occasionally find silver or other valuable coins in the rolls, I simply keep the ones that are not spendable in the U.S.
