My girlfriend works as a bank teller and as she opened up a new roll of quarters she found a blank quarter. It has not been stamped at all and the edges do not have the ridges as regular stamped quarters. Obviously I'm new to the coin collecting world and I dont really know a lot about it. However I was just wondering if this is worth anything? Is it common for blanks to make it into circulation? thank you
The most common blank found is a Cent but I did find 1 blankj quarter--I sold it for $4.00 so that gives you a idea on the value--- Speedy
That is an interesting item.I have seen the odd error coin from New Zealand,as the occasional 5c. coin with a clip in it occasionally crops up.This is due to the machine cutting the planchets too close to one another.Have you ever had an off-metal coin,which is a coin struck in the wrong metal (eg;a Sacagawea $1 struck on a $1/4 planchet)?
Welcome to the forum zero. I can't tell from your photo - does the edge show the coppery color center that a normal clad coin does? Have you put it on a balance scale with a properly struck quarter? Is she sure it was a bank or armored car company roll and not a customer turn-in? In other words, is there any evidence that it is really an unstruck planchet as opposed to some kind of slug?
well at her credit union that she works at they do not accept rolled change from customers. The credit union has a machine the customers insert change into, then receive a reciept where the customer then redeems the reciept at the window for cash. The customers change never makes it into the credit unions stash. I guess this is to save time and to prevent being conned into taking rolls of change with fake money in it. So this coin had to have come directly from the reserve armored car delievery. The edge does appear to have the coloration of a regular quarter. I have not officially weighed it on a scale but I held the blank along with a stamped coin and they feel similar in weight and material.
So far so good. You really do need to either get a precise weight to compare to the 5.67g specification weight, or put it on a balance scale with a known genuine quarter and see how precisely it matches. The lack of reeding as well as design, and the presence of rims, is consistent with a planchet that somehow missed the dies on its trip from the upset mill to the rollilng machine.
ccgnum--like putting 2 dimes or 1 nickel in a quarter roll to make up for a missing quarter.... Speedy Zero--That is just what mine looked like--- Speedy
