Help! My coin is broken!

Hi Everyone,

I recently got a broken 1954 Washington quarter, the first I've ever seen like this. The crack is ragged and the broken edges are rough and grainy looking so it was not cut. Anybody have any experience with this type of error? I'm wondering if these are rare and worth anything above silver melt. Thanks.

 

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duct tape it.

 

I was thinking more like super glue.

 

It's not an error it's pmd someone just cut it in half

 

Sell it on eBay with a starting bid of $10,000,000 :devil:

 

But then you can't re-break it for future enjoyment

 

You know super glue won't work. Krazy glue shows a guy hanging by his helmet. Try that stuff.

 

This is the only thing I have ever seen like it. I am NOT necessarilly saying your coin is the same scenario as this one, but it is the only thing I could think of.

http://www.brokencc.com/modules.php?mod=Pages&op=view_page&pg_id=65

 

So cool that the same coin (coin #25) is in two slabs!

I'd pursue the possibility that your quarter is similar. I would think that there'd be more evidence of bending or cutting if that were the case...

How nicely do they fit back together?

 

So PCGS grades and slabs things like this?

 

what temps would it take to freeze, then snap it? doesnt look cut

 

This is the coin in a 2x2 with back lighting.

 

I would assume there would have to be solid evidence it was a planchet flaw, and not just a lack of evidence that it was PMD.

 

Cast fake?

 

Combination of what i learned in school and what i learned from coins so far: when coins are made the material what they are made gets flattened (did not know the right word). In the walsing proces the silver bars need to be reheated at some point, if not the silver gets to much inner tention.When not done properly you can not see it at the outside, but a silver bar not "untentioned" with heat can fracture. The fracture lines of a non correct walsed silver bar are looking much like the fractureline i see on this coin. Not sure it has anything to do with it, but it is an option.

 

Log might be onto it. I have seen many cast fakes broken just like this.

That was the first thing that crossed my mind... The color looks good tho... But what's going on with the surface on the reverse?? Any chance you could weigh it?

 

Good point.

Still, the inside of the rip looks funky. Maybe an improper mix? or cast?

The lower right of the obverse (upper right reverse) looks funky, too. Will they put it in two "genuine" slabs?!

Even better: the small piece grades and the big gets geniuned!

 

I would think that the interior metal of the coin would be much less porous than what is exhibited on the OP's coin. Especially after the rolling process which actually compresses the metal. The inner metal of his coin looks almost identical to the porous exterior which leads me to believe cast fake.

 

now that i can take a look at the pictures on a big screen (when i posted the story bout the tention it was on my phone, so with small pictures), i dont think it is a tention problem.
it looks like the temperature of the melted material was not high enough, what could be a verry good indicator that its a casted coin.
If you melt silver and the temperature is not highe enough you get a verry similar patern when it breaks.

 

I agree