what happened to this quarter? a meat grinder on the reverse side, perhaps? just curious.

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Road rash.... tails lost

 

did it ever!

 

poor ole' Mississippi quarter got run over many times in the parking lot.

 

Yep! Spend a few days lying face down in a parking lot and see how your back side looks!!!

 

im suprised the other side still looks as good as it does. must've been face down in the snow. poor quarter.

 

Face up.

 

It was face up. The side touching the ground is what got chewed up. The obverse didn't get messed up because the tire rubber isn't hard and rough.

Seeing good coins like this is sad. Example, I pulled into a gas station to purchase fuel some time ago (2 - 3 years ago) and on the ground near the pump I spotted a nice looking penny "heads Up". "Awesome" I said to myself. I picked it up and flipped it over and the reverse was just as the one in this thread is, beat and chewed up. And the sad thing is, it was a S mint wheat penny. The obverse was in pristine condition, but the reverse was.....sad. Hate when that happens.

 

I was just going to say that. Lol

 

That quarter was laying on the I-95 at exit 92 for exactly five days. Thousands passed on it while it was there. LOL

 

My bad! You're right!

 

I know you're just kidding around, but seriously, if the coin featured on this thread was on a road where vehicles are traveling faster than 5 miles per hour, both sides will be severely chewed up. Because coins being run over by vehicles traveling faster than 5 mph cause the coin to bounce up and many time will land on it's other side, with the rear tire running the coin over a second time, causing damage to the other side.

That's why 99% of the time a nail or screw will be stuck in the rear tires of a vehicle. The front wheel causes the nail or screw to bounce up after running it over and the rear wheel then runs it over again, thus the nail or screw penetrates the rear tire.

For this reason, this coin featured on this thread was run over by vehicles traveling no faster than 5 mph, such as like at a gas station, drive way, or small parking lot. If I was a betting man, I'd place my money on it being damaged at a junk food drive-through window, where someone dropped a piece of their change and cars ran it over half the day until an employee came along and picked it up along with restaurant trash, placing it back into circulation.

 

I'd have to agree with you on that.
But, I have seen coins that were stuck fast in tar or some other substance and never moved, so there's that. LOL

 

Yeah, I've seen that before as well. I take very long walks around in the big city and I always come across coins that are stuck in tar. But when they are there for very long, the side of the coin that is up, usually always gets worn down to nothing from the high volume of rubber tires running them over.

 

Road rash, spender.