Don't let those awful websites where the beat up coins are listed for huge prices. The corrupt people can list them for any price they want to...
It would really help you if you can learn how to tell a beat up and damaged coin from a error made at the mint. A good way to help learn is to...
From the looks of this coin I highly doubt that it is on a silver quarter planchet. It looks like a nickle has been altered by using homemade dies.
About any thing can happen to a coin while it is in use. The metal is soft and things bumps into the coins and can cause it to look like letters...
They look normal to me , I just see a lot of gouges and scrapes from circulation wear.
A counter clash is when the dies clash then clash again , this can make a coin look almost like a doubled die . This dime looks like it may have...
You would be much better off if you want to look for error coins to first learn all you can about them. Right now it looks like you can't tell the...
It is PMD . Meaning damaged after leaving the mint.
Not a error , It is just a badly damaged coin
This is what coins looks like after they have seen a few years of circulation. The metal coins are made of is really soft and the coins gets all...
I don't see anything that looks like a doubled die. I looked again and can see what you are talking about behind the ear. I don't know for sure...
I got it wrong in my first reply to you . I thought this was a raised area , I didn't know it was incused . You are right about it being struck...
When looking thru new rolls of coins from the mint almost always if you find a error or variety coin there will be others in the roll just like...
This is from some kind of die damage where the die somehow got a big qouge in it or all scratched up in this area. I have a lot of them that looks...
This looks like a nice large struck thru coin . A struck thru area occurs when something get's in between the planchet and the die and get's...
It looks like the coin in this thread has taken a tiny hit on the 8 and has pushed a small section of the 8 down into the coin. Not sideways but...
It looks like a die chip that is starting to form . State quarter dies are bad for getting die chips in them.
I sure am glad you are trying to learn before selling your error coins on Ebay. That place has become overrun with junk it is about impossible to...
Anything is only worth what it will sell for
Hi Mike ! I can't tell for sure from the images if the coin has a warp or not. If it is warped in this area , I may be wrong but wouldn't it be...
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