:hatchipped in acid...NEXT!!Lol First off,it's not gold.Trick of the light.This was gifted to me from my mother-in-law,of all people,who found it in pocket change. It has the silver clading on both sides but it is very,very thin.But no copper color bleeds through.The edge looks copper. It is reedless,or I can't see with the naked eye any reeding. My favorite part is the q is really an o.Alot of the lettering is filled in also.The b in liberty is an egg shaped d.It is thinner and slighly smaller than a regular quarter.I'll have my buddy at the post office weigh it for me in a couple of days. I can barely make out the words virtue and independance,but not because of wear.The word unum shows up ok in the flash but only the U is apparent to my eyes.Alot of detail is only apparent in these images and I'm only today seeing some of them,lol.I've had this for a few years now. Could it be a foreign blank or maybe some kind of lamination thang? Thanks for looking. Peace
I can't open your pics You may have a wrong stock i don't know for sure. I would like if you could post some better pics for me to help you out may be a major error . jazzcoins joe
Thanks for replying.I'm working on it guys,hang on.I thought all V-bulletin formats were the same,Lol.I didn't create an album,that may be the problem.BRB
You know, I have never gotten the photo gallery here to work right. I've tried to use it and it just never seemed to work. I'd recommend using photobucket or a similar site.
Thanks for the suggestion.But it has taken a long time to finally have a spam-free mail box,Lol.I'll go waaay out of my way to avoid putting my address anywhere. My problem is I was copying and pasting the URL to the picture instead of the BB code. I can try to take some more natural light pics if necessary.Have you guys ever tried to photograph a silver colored coin with a cheap wal mart camera,Lol?I'll buy American next time,if and when an American company re-opens.I still miss polaroid,Heh-Heh.
looks like it was dropped in acid and the coin was eaten away I don't think you have an error there but, wait until some other responces.I really can't give a definate answer. Jazzcoins joe:rolling:
Looks like it has spent a lot of time in vending machines etc. It isn't the result of soaking in acid because an acid coin would still show the edge reeding and eventually the copper core would be sunk in as compared to the coppernickel layers. Also the appearance of the reverse lettering is not consistant with acid soaking.
i agree. ive seen alot of quarters that look like this. the long story of it. i work at a self serve carwash. the coins are basically reused some coins are "lost" = people take them home. some coins are gained = people bring new coins with them. but most are the same. the life of our coins after we get them are. put into bill changers, you put in $1, get out 4 quarters. put in 12 quarters to wash your car. we use a vacuume system to collect them from all the bays, and all the vacs. they all get vac'ed to the coin safe, thousands of coins weekly. gravity fed from the coin safe to a bucket. so you can imagine the weight of a 5 gallon bucket of quarters pressed on a single coin. from there dumped in the coin counter, a machine that spins the coins to line them up to send them through a counting eye. some times they get caught on the little lip inside the machine and spin slow while the machine spins fast. wears down the edge of the coins. from the counter into money bags. from bags back to the bill changers. with loss and gain the coins naturally replace themselves with little wear. but some times being a closed system like that a coin may make the round trip 50 times. getting damaged to the point it that its too light to be read as a real coin, or rejected by the counter for being not the right size etc. some get bent up from the speed they are thrown through the vac system and hitting the other coins, or bent up a dozen other ways. add that with chemicals that mostly arent harmful. occationally some soap, soapy water, pre-soak, carwax, water, dirt etc finds its way in the coin slots, and then gets sucked through the system, some coins sit in that mix of chemicals and debris and get pounded by other coins. the coins tend to get flattened out just like your pic of the quarter. all our rejected coins get tossed in the cash drawer and then eventually make their way to the bank for an exchange. its common for most vending companys to have coins like that also also foreign coins, old coins and non-quarters make their way into the system. which is why i like to count them. when you collect coins and have a job counting money its more like hunting for treasure and getting paid for it got me a set of silver quarters (60, 61, 63) all in the same day. took extra time to look for the 62 but no luck. get $1 coins all the time that people spend as a quarter, of which i put in a quarter and take the $1 coin. when refilling the bill changers we add quarters. remove and count the bills. they too get screwed up, torn etc. and also you can find some "keepers" (aslong as you replace the value that was given/spent the boss dosent mind). silver certifficates, old date, star bills etc. i had to start a book for paper money because of it.
Thanks alot guys,I really appreciate your looking at it.I don't want to return to coin sales as a hobby,I'm just fascinated.AND I'm not a desperado looking to make a quick buck for Christmas.That being said... I'll accept this coin as damaged,though I see only a couple of slight knicks,which are visible in the rim pics.But the rim is bothering me,Lol. Again,the coin is slightly smaller and thinner than the vermont quarter I'm using as comparison,suggesting that part of the coin is missing.The weight of this coin is 5.7g according to the scales at the U.S. post office.Shouldn't the weight be less?There are no raised portions anywhere on the edge to indicate that it has had pressure placed on it to obliterate the reeding.If the coin has been in a press of some type,wouldn't it be larger in diameter instead of smaller? Ok,dead horse beaten and thanks again. Peace
