I've seen many filled in mint marks and little random worthless minor errors, but this is my first of these and I seen some on here with trusy and a few others so I think is pretty cool even though it has no value like all my others lol. How common are these?
A coin that has been in circulation for 50 years has probably been subjected to all kinds of mishandling, abuse and damage. I wouldn't even want to guess what could have caused it.
Looks like the bottom of the last "T" took a hit, got mashed. When I was a kid in the late 70's, all us neighbor kids used to play a game with quarters. We'd all get a bunch of quarters and take turns tossing one at a time up against a cement wall. The one who's quarter stopped closest to the wall won that round of quarters. We'd do it for hours on end. So I'm sure that created some damage to quarters too. The game was called "pitching" or something like that, as I recall. This 71' quarter may have been one that we actually used
David, while your quarter looks odd, I think if you could examine it under a more magnified lens, you would see that something hit the surface just under the T, moving the metal, and then circulation smoothed it out. At least that's what I see from the photos you provided. Posting photos Full Image is always recommended.
