okay, I’m humble enough to admit I don’t know enough here. My quarter is well circulated, which may add to why I cannot see any raised metal surfaces around the missing metal. I can still see the letters and numbers where the missing metal is. I normally write something like this off as a counting wheel error or something, but I’d like to know if a counting wheel could scrape off metal from a coin but leave remnants of letters and numbers? Is this a potential mint error? Please educate me or point me to a resource to learn about this. That or tell me it’s an error and make my day. Please forgive the poor lighting and background choice. Limited time/light available at the moment. @paddyman98 @furryfrog02 @Rick Stachowski @JCro57
I think of counters and rollers as mashing the metal down, not gouging it away. So I'd expect to see remnants of the design underneath. I may be wrong, though.
Reverse appears normal. Where did that extra metal go? Why no raised areas on the edges of that depression? @Fred Weinberg the remnants are definitely there. Wouldn’t a coin that has been severely scraped not show the lettering? If this was hit post mint, wouldn’t there be raised metal on the edges?
I think this might have clarified everything. If the counting machine smashed it down, then there would still be remnants of the lettering. Later today, I’m going to take a long look at the reverse for any raised metal.
