Ive been holding on to this quarter for months and it keeps catching my eye. Just wondering what you guys thought. It’s mirror-like and seems to stand out more than any others I’ve seen from the Denver mint. The details seem a lot more defined as well. Sorry about the photos; it’s not gold, that is my poor lighting. The kids scratched my camera too. I tried.
I have not, and do not, study the state quarters, but at first glance, it looks very normal to me. (though the horse and rider do look rather flat) Maybe someone with more state quarter knowledge will say different.
The horse and rider were designed that way on the Wyoming state quarter. More of a silhouette rather than a defined artistic image.
That's what I was thinking but like I said, state quarters are not my cup of tea.Thanks for your help , Randy. But really just normal, right?
It is quite normal to my eye. It is a well struck quarter with little circulation. When this series came out lots of folks would hoard rolls of the state quarters. You have to remember at the time we had seen very little design changes in our coinage. Folks were very excited when the state quarter series ran. Heck, I was one of them.... Now that the excitement has waned on the series, many of the hoarded rolls are finding their way back into circulation. So it isn't that uncommon to find an eleven year old state quarter in near mint state.
Looking again, I believe the poster is looking at something like the "doubling" on the D in the 6th pic from the top. Sometimes what you see is caused by the lighting, it seems to come and go depending on which angle you're looking at it from, and sometimes it's caused by what's referred to as "machine doubling" which is caused by a problem with the striking mechanism, such as a loose collar or coin or die. A true "Double Die" is an actual doubled image in the die itself which , when it strikes the planchet, it leaves behind an actual doubled image. That's my simplified explanation of what you're seeing. More experienced members can provide a much better explanation.
