Came across this I and N together in god we trust and filled D. let me know what you guys think thanks.
I come across so many of these from 1982-1984. I just put them aside. Seriously. There's a LOT of these.
Please DO put aside any especially nice 1982 and 1983 almost anything you find. Those years are tough to find in really nice shape, particularly quarters.
This quarter I believe is in the worst shape that I ever noticed . Any thoughts? Seems like the more I look at it the more I see. Thanks in advance
Granted, it has been damaged somewhat while in circulation, but if you think that is bad, wait until you have seen one with "road rash". Chris
Well, mostly the recovery from a recession started, and demand for coins temporarily exceeded our ability to crank them out. In fact, the shortage of productive capacity temporarily got so bad they stopped making uncirculated sets for 2 years - 1982-3. Dies were used harder, you might say overused.
No, not likely an error. I like to call these by my own personal acronym - SBTCOOI. "Somebody Beat The Crap Out Of It". But despair not. A numismatist once won a high award at an ANA convention with an exhibit titled "Road Kill". It was a display of mangled coins found along public streets and highways.
Thank you Mr. Bellman. I appreciate you taking the time to look at it. I do have another question. I found a 1947 Dime that seems to have a number 8 or letter S on its side. I posted it on this website before, but for your convenience I'll upload it again.
Mr. Books above is correct, as usual. I'll make an educated guess on the specific cause of the damage. It looks to me like a pair of wire cutters or "dykes" with a slightly loose fulcrum point. The wedge-shaped displacement in opposite directions on nearby yet not quite adjacent edge reeds is what tells me this. Remember, while harder than gold, 90% silver is still soft compared to some metals, and can easily be significantly marred using some modest hand tools. You don't need to resort to exotic tool materials.
Wow, that is one hot mess, isn't it? Don't put it in the hands of some of our noobs - they'll think they have a $100K doubled die coin. I believe your coin may have been struck on Mr. Tugly's machine, Bud Tugly.
By the way, the master hub for quarters was ALSO starting to deteriorate some in this era. By 1991, quarters were a story of "garbage in, garbage out". 1992 brought about a brand new master hub, used through 1998. It featured more "detail" but less "relief" creating what has become known as George 'Spaghetti Hair' Washington.
