thanks for reply, I will hold on to this coin, on reverse it look's to good to be damage, perfectly like that around the wing area, the obverse I agree with PMD
Anyone clever enough can come up with something that could do this in a nearly perfect circular pattern. Let's see, make a wood block with an opening to hold the quarter securely. Then another block with screws all the way around in a circular pattern through the block. Then hit with a hammer. Lot of interesting and playful people out there trying to confuse people all the time.
I think i posted a coin like this a while ago. Is a bottle cap bigger than a quarter? Looks like a bottle cap vice grip.. i see a few bottle caps out there for 1/2 inch
thanks for reply, this is from Wikipedia, Intentional Intervention by mint personnel, not a deliberate attempt to create an error, but usually involves an action intended to improve quality that miscarries and creates error coin instead. my point being it is not impossible it could have been created at the mint, but also it could be possible someone altered coin after the mint
These are the images you posted Tyler. I don't see how this could have happened at the mint. Looks like the shape of a kitchen tool. Like you use to core a piece of fruit. My second choice would be a hole say like you put in a drill.
this might sound crazy but I think only opinion, this was not done to deface the coin more like an added art
just one more thing might make you laugh or weep but when I was in seventh grade in 1971 we went on a class trip to Washington DC awesome trip, we had a tour in the mint, all the money that gets burned in the incineration room is wild, when coins are being made especially in the 60's I am sure a lot of coins escaped the mint, after humans having a few to many, I know about such things I ran a machine for 35 years, you can get very creative when there is nothing to do.
