Bicentennial quarter on obverse Washington is missing part of his neck.

Its on the lower part if his neck. Struck through grease?

 

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That's... really, really odd. It looks like there's also some weakness in the hair and ribbon at the back of the neck...?

 

A heavily polished die could explain what you're seeing

 

Yup. What he said^^. Good catch.

 

Neat find. Looks like the hair at the bottom is also missing a lock of hair.

 

Interesting find.

 

His neck is also punched threw the reverse in between the stars at 12:00 and 1:00 o'clock

 

Sorry Make that 1:00 and 2:00 o'clock

 

nice over polished die.

 

OK I have the same coin. Did you hear anything about it? Did you send it in?

 

Hey, wait a minute I have the same coin mine has a neck part that’s missing. He didn’t polish polish the coin because I have one. Does anyone know if it’s worth anything?

 

The posters above were talking about someone polishing the die, not the coin.

The die strikes the planchet to press the design into it. If the Mint workers polish the die too heavily (perhaps to get rid of damage), the high points on the die get worn down. These correspond to low points on the coin. As a result, the low-relief features on the coin -- like that part of Washington's neck -- can fade or disappear entirely. That will be true for every coin struck by the over-polished die until they take it out of service.

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