Hi Folks, I could use some advice - is this an error, a mistake, a nightmare (LOL) and is it worth around 25 cents or 25 dollars? You know what I am getting at. I've had it forever and a day - just ran across it again tonight. I do know it is only the second year of the sandwich quarters. Thanks!!! Lew
Hmmm.. tis a strange one indeed. Maybe de-lamination? If it is a flaw it's worth whatever the buyer will pay. If post mint damage then 25 cents. Close up pics would help. Someone with more knowledge may chime in here so I'll sign off.
I tired again - hope it is better - definatley a piece missing, not added. can't find a book with a more definate price guidline. Oh well - Thanks!! I'll try to find people more into this kind of thing. Lew
Lamination,I would say its value is based on the demand in the market place. prob between 5-15$ also depends on the condition also.nice piece
Yes but must have been back in the sixties as that box has not been opened since - back in the days these were garbage and silver was Queen ... LOL
Must be getting late - my messages are looking like my 30 year Daughters text message.....@#$%^&(*&^%%$#$%^&*()_
I would say a planchet problem don't know about a lamination doesn't have the look for that,some other planchet flaw,I would say. Jack
Looks as if it started out as a die crack, then the crack separated into 2 cracks, then reunited into back into 1 crack. The island piece has fallen out. Is it a lamination?
That looks like the "Frontal Lobotomy" Washington which was performed on him just before crossing the Delaware in the middle of winter. Folks wondered what the he.. he was thinking! From a numismatic standpoint, $5 - $15 sounds about right.
Lamination errors are almost exclusively confined to solid-alloy coins. Clad coins develop separation errors. Because the gap in the clad layer looks recessed and appears to expose the underlying copper core, it may have been a rolled-in piece of debris that then fell out. Then again, there are problems with that scenario since there should be a copper zone outside the recess and even with the coin's surface. Basically, there's no way of telling exactly what you've got without an examination under a microscope.
