Of corse,i always admit im wrong,90% of my posts are me not knowing what im doing. Hey...i read that the first time you posted it,thank you kind sir for your gracious input.
@FoundinTN Contrary to popular belief my personal theory is when theres one error there could easily be more, many more!.. Wit a pretty substantial 25c MAD on your coin, anything can happen. The press was obviously out of alignment and as far as we know the coiner could have been out on a break as this was happening! Stranger things you know....a 1944 steel and an 82-D small date Cu found within the same year.....just sayin'
The top of the words QUARTER DOLLAR on the reverse are not oriented toward the rim, rather the bottom of those letters are. So the A clash that @FoundinTN thinks he sees is actually oriented properly.
I gave you a like, because you are correct that @FoundinTN has the orientation correct, IF it were a clash. Now, if you've been around the block long enough, you'll know that @Fred Weinberg is one of THE foremost experts on errors. If he tells you something isn't an error, it's 99.999999% not an error. But I'm willing to entertain your curiosity and show you where the OP went wrong. I did an overlay with an MS67+ coin. Note that a regular clash would've not had an A anywhere near the letter B in LIBERTY. So at best, we are dealing with a rotated die clash. So now we'll assume that it's a rotated die clash. Let's look at what that would look like. Look very closely at how this A is shaped in my photos. It's bold, cornered, triangular, sharp. A clash would replicate this on the other coin. Notice how sharp Washington's face is on the Eagle's wing of the quarter I have that's clashed? What we're seeing on the OP's coin is mushy, round, and the gap between the two legs of the A are actually too high for the actual A on DOLLAR. Essentially, the OP thinks that he is seeing an A, but only because he wants to, and because his brain is convinced that an A could be there. Unfortunately, what he is seeing is not what is actually on the coin....
@Seattlite86 - Your overlay composite image has one side or the other incorrectly mirrored/flipped. Just look at a quarter in your hand. The correct A to be looking at is the A in QUARTER, not the A in DOLLAR, and the A in QUARTER falls more or less directly, were it a clash, in between the I and B of LIBERTY without needing to get into any sort of rotated die issue that you raised above. I have not made any comment about whether the A @FoundinTN thinks he sees is actually a clash, but rather I had previously noted that this A image is actually oriented correctly, and now that the A does appear to be positioned in the proper location, if it was an actual clash.
Lol, I’m in Europe and haven’t paid with a quarter in a long time. Thanks for catching the overlay and me forgetting to flip the image as well as rotate. At the end of the day, the A doesn’t match and it’s not a clash.