Hey all. Picked this up for $2.50 at the same coin store I mentioned before as not particularly liking. I have to admit his error bucket has me coming back... that and it's "only" 60 miles away!! I lovingly call it George Washington blowing a bubble!!
more pics I hope the details can be seen here. This is a 1978 D quarter in which Washington's lips and nose rise up with the bubble, as well as the "D" and "W" in "IN GOD WE TRUST" as well as weird laminationsthrough "Liberty" and in front of his forehead. The wierdest thing, in my opinion, is the fact that the lump is on the opposite side on the reverse. Again, every aspect of the design is fully there. The farthest talon of the eagle rises up the edge of the bubble, which is big enough to also elevate the bottom half of the main part of the eagle's left wing, the eagle's perch, and tailfeathers, the top of that olive branch, and the bottom of the tip of the wing. There are also more of the same dark laminations, and the whole piece has a sort of brown color like maybe it's missing the clad layer?? There is no way, in my opinion, that this is a solder job. Again, I hope these pics do it well enough for you to see... Just wanted to share and ask opinions. How do ya think this happened?? Need to work on my pitchur takin' skills i know! -Andy
a double bubble on obverse and reverse, and on opposite sides lol! was it a good buy for $2.50? How common (or not) is it?
Blowtorch job. The coin was subjected to a tightly focused source of intense heat, which caused gas expansion. I see these alterations all the time.
OK, I had never heard of a mint error that looked like that before. Would a heat alteration affect the opposite side though, like a counter-stamp? -Andy
seel if I flip mine over, the two bumps are not the same "bubble, for each bubble, the back side is normal, flat coin, you can see that the one bump is on the point of the neck, so if it were one bubble, the other hemi-sphere would be the top of the torch. What really gets me is the "D" on the obverse bump.
Coneca has an example of a coin that looks like this and they determined it to be a torch job as the others above said
