1982-p quarter weight 4.9g and no FACE Washington

ok now, this is cool find I think! the face of Washington is replaced by a blob. the weight of quarters is supposed to be 5.67g and tolerance -/+(0.227 grams) if you add my coin's weight and tolerance 4.9 + 0.227=5.127 that is still light for this quarter by 0.55g

 

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note I see at the edge of the coin clad on both side's of the coin and copper in the middle the coin all so has a bend in it at the 10oclock by the L in Liberty and liberty is cut off by the edge of the coin

 

I will be back on I am going to bed now looking forward to all the replies

 

It looks like PMD on Washington's face to me and possibly dipped in a mild acid.

Chris

 

PMD - Post Mint Damage
Environmental Corrosion

Not a mint error of any Kind

 

We can speculate all day (I think it's heat related), but the bottom line is that the coin was severely damaged after it left the mint. There is no part of the minting or die making process that could produce a coin like that. Continuing to study the minting process will help you differentiate between the DEFDAM and authentic errors

 

Acid can eat up a coin like that and reduce the weight.
I'm not saying that's what it is, but it is a possibility.

 

seriously??

 

I agree with the above post -

 

but .... what if ....

 

1. Ok, how is acid going to eat the metal and then place it over Washington's face this is a mound of metal on his face! and if it was acid then we would see metal movement to make the mound of metal and incused area's of the coin this is why I made side showing pic's
2. Pmd how do you all think the big ass metal mound got on is face it did not just appear there!!!!! it's not glue, solder, foreign material it's is the coin there is no evidence of the reverse of an indent <pic also shown above>. plz explain how this is PMD and saying it just is PMD will not work for me on this coin I can feel the mound with my finger's

 

Yeah just a deteriorated coin that was probably underground at some point in it's life.

 

It's your coin, but facts matter.

What you see on the quarter occurred
well after it was already in circulation.

Acid/chemicals, whatever - I assure you
the coin did not leave the US Mint looking
anything like it does now.

It's a damaged coin, and no 'outside the box'
thinking or reasoning is going to change that FACT.

As we suggest to others, because it's your coin,
and you believe it's a genuine error, and believe
we are all wrong, please submit it to any of the
four recognized authentication services, and
post the results here.

And, as I've done numerous times, I will happily
pay for your submission fees and postage, if the
coin comes back as a "Mint Error" of any kind.

 

I am sorry but I have seen seriously thousands of coin's and none have ever have a mound of metal on them from the deteriorating form being in the ground

 

Torch lighter and someone moving it around? Metal from another coin someone melted on to it? Either way the weight says enough that there was no way this was an error AND they had an underweight planchet.

Looks neat, but not an error.

 

Looks like it took a good sandblasting job as well.

 

Acid will make the coin lighter. It doesn't matter as this coin is damaged and how, by what and whom are irrelevant. It's worth face value.

 

@Fred Weinberg, I have no belief that my coin is a genuine error!! THIS IS WHY I ASK YOU ALL

 

A coin, which is not hermetically sealed away from, well, anything; can be damaged by one *or MORE* instance of anything.

Just think if you drop a coin on another coin. Then drop another coin on that coin. That is Two instances of a coin striking one coin. Of course, it could happen thousands of times. Then it could get damaged by a wide variety of other things many times too. It could have been lost in the ground more than once after someone had it in a campfire, picked it up and tossed it aside where it got buried. It could have been struck by something else too as the face looks like something struck it too and indented that one area, more than once. Who really knows ?

Coins get damaged all the time, many times, by multiple unknown methods.

The important thing is being able to see what is damaged and what could have happened during the minting process.