rough ring around the perimeter. Die trial? Or maybe unfinished die? Is this common? Also a 2000 virginia quarter with same. Pmd??? Thanks everyone!!!!!
It looks like a coin rolling machine got to those while putting them in rolls, i bet they were on the end of the rolls, pmd, sorry but keep looking
I don't think so. Blow up the pictures and look at the surfaces. In the centers you have the flat smooth surfaces created buy the fields of the dies, then suddenly the surface texture changes. It is almost like an etched surface. And it is all the way down on the fields and right up against the lettering. It isn't a scraping like the fingers of a rolling machine does. There is no scrape damage to the lettering. And notice on the VA quarter the normal field continues out into the etched area around the JA of JAMESTOWN. If these were the end coins of a roll that got wet with something mildly corrosive/acidic, the rolled end would hold the corrosive against the coin around the edge and would also have held it like a reservoir allowing it a longer time to work.
Interesting! would'nt this corrosive agent have been a bit more uneven? I would imagine some sort of off center look or maybe a bit spread into the middle of the feild from surface tention or just seeping. It looks very symetrical all the way around almost like someone put a round sheild of some sort in the center and sandblasted the edge. I think a bad rolling machine would have distorted the lettering a bit more. thanks everyone, keep em coming
my thought on this is that if it were mint made, the letters and design would not also have the 'sandblasted' look to them. since the lettering and design elements are included I gotta say, I do not think it's from the mint.
Stand the roll on end possibly even in a thin puddle of whatever it was. The rolled end of the roll would soak it up and hold it against the coin in the ring shape and the weight of the rest of the coins in the roll would keep it in firm contact while keeping the center of the coin up out of the puddle.
