I think she/he is asking the knowledgeable members SUCH AS YOU why this quarter looks the way it does. What do you think?
When I put my bills into get quarters at the laundromat I got a quarter looks like this so I didn't find it on the ground
You may not have found it in the dirt but it may have been sometime in it’s sort life. We call it environmental damage..
Back in oh six that quarter left the mint and went right into that coin changer....and waited patiently 13 years to swapped out for a buck!
@cpm9ball ... @ldhair ...so many times we get posts we have to guess what the OP is asking. I don’t like guessing. My first inclination was improperly annealed. Then I thought heat damage. Then I read others input about environmental damage or being in the dirt. Then I read it was found at a laundry...could it have been damaged by heat from a dryer? I have more frequently started asking the OP to clarify by asking a better question...Chris beat me to it...Spark
All too often, we find people here who act before they think. So it is that it happens that their comments are interpreted in more than one way. Not so with *Insider*! He told the OP exactly what she was thinking. Chris
ldhair, posted: "Maybe you could have taken the time to help?" I try not to comment on things I'm not sure of. I was hoping to learn something from "our resident" error expert on this forum. "What error" may be a humorous response - in fact, something I would think of doing right away, but anyone can see the coin does not look normal. That would make it different (an error?) to most folks.
The main thing you see is total discoloration. We happen to see that all the time .. as in *all* the time. So when we see these type of coins we're trying to think of what specifically the question is. You didn't state "different color" .. so it leaves our imagination to try and figure out what you are asking. You know what you are asking but you didn't elaborate to us what you are thinking .. even though the color would be my first guess. This coin was in circulation for 13 years before it came to you. You didn't find it in the ground, but that doesn't mean it wasn't found in the ground once, or twice, or even 5 times. Simply because no one knows the exact history of the presented coin. For all we know, it could have been flushed down a toilet and founds it's way out ... coins are made of metal and, just like a car with no paint on it, it can rust and corrode (just like polished unpainted steel will turn this same rust type color fairly quickly out in the environments). But as Spark above gave a few potential examples it could have been it is simply "damaged somehow, sometime(s), someplace(s) in the wild". Being at a laundromat one could guess heat damage. How many times have you heard the jingle of coins in a rotating drum? They get past the lint trap and stuck between drums and then all sorts of damage can occur there depending up how long before they were cleaned out. But the key is .. since we really do not know "how it got discolored", you simply have to accept that it "did get discolored by some non-USMint discoloration process" thus it is generically called "environmental damage".
I think (not directed at this OP or anyone) that people get stupid LAZY that they dont even take a moment to think out any real questions before they post coins. The toss a coin on a table, take a quick potato picture and then demand answers. Chris and Paddy and the rest are volunteering and its almost offending when people just throw down a pocket full of change "assuming" to get a clear answer. Coins are not lotto tickets and posters are sometimes lazy. You can spot the youtube junkies with their get rich quick arrogance on some of these. Its not as bad when its a brand new person making their first post....but some do it over and over and over.
