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Message:: [QUOTE="Rick92592, post: 5399196, member: 117393"]Came across this odd 1978 quarter recently. Pretty worn --- I don't think the oddities jump out, so thus it got pretty well circulated. Oddity #1: Washington's head is indented by a circle. No biggie --- maybe someone needed a shim for a piece of heavy equipment or something like that. Oddity #2: The reverse is where it gets interesting. You can see there's a serpentine, wreath-like feature all around the coin along where the legend and denomination are. Looks almost perfectly centered. At first it doesn't look like an indentation, but rather it looks raised. But if you enlarge the image you'll see that the feature seems to have been created by a round serrated object digging into the coin and pushing the metal outwards and upwards, creating the feature. You can see this especially in the denomination section. I realize it's probably caused by a citizen looking for a spacer or testing his own die or a thousand other scenarios. On the other hand... I'm not familiar with the minting process other than it's basically blanks being pressed with dies. But there must be more steps in production that I don't know about and might explain this. Any chance this could be an error at the mint? Thank you. [ATTACH=full]1232856[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1232857[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]