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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrlduck, post: 470922, member: 16315&quot;]i agree. ive seen alot of quarters that look like this.</p><p>the long story of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>i work at a self serve carwash. the coins are basically reused</p><p>some coins are &quot;lost&quot; = people take them home.</p><p>some coins are gained = people bring new coins with them. but most are the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>the life of our coins after we get them are.</p><p>put into bill changers, you put in $1, get out 4 quarters.</p><p>put in 12 quarters to wash your car.</p><p>we use a vacuume system to collect them from all the bays, and all the vacs. they all get vac&#039;ed to the coin safe, thousands of coins weekly.</p><p>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.</p><p>from there dumped in&nbsp; 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.</p><p>from the counter into money bags.</p><p>from bags back to the bill changers.</p><p><br /></p><p>with loss and gain the coins naturally replace themselves with little wear.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>the coins tend to get flattened out just like your pic of the quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p>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</p><p><br /></p><p>also foreign coins, old coins and non-quarters make their way into the system. which is why i like to count them.</p><p>when you collect coins and have a job counting money its more like hunting for treasure and getting paid for it</p><p>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.</p><p>get $1 coins all the time that people spend as a quarter, of which i put in a quarter and take the $1 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>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 &quot;keepers&quot; (aslong as you replace the value that was given/spent the boss dosent mind).</p><p>silver certifficates, old date, star bills etc.</p><p>i had to start a book for paper money because of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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