Hello everyone! I picked up some junk silver,Among them was this Washington quarter and NOT knowing much about error's except for the obvious i might as well ask other's so here it is...Opinion's Please!?! P.S. IMO It's PMD but...HAPPY HUNTING ALL!!!
It looks like PMD to me, possibly from a wrapping or counting machine. Maybe someone else can be more specific. Chris
PMD. There are some really good books on error coins that describe the minting process. Personally, if I can't describe where and what happened to the coin during the minting process, I don't call it an error.
Truer words never spoken. In order for it to be an incuse feature on a coin, it has to be a positive feature on the die, and there's no way of doing that so the Mint is excluded as a culprit. It then becomes frustrating when you can't describe the particular mechanism of damage, though. Here's my snap thought: At some point in this coin's life, it became a shim or spacer of just the right diameter to hold a heavy weight or momentary impact, and did so. I don't see machine handling causing such even damage with no metal smearing at all, even factoring subsequent circulation. Unfortunately this can never be anything but theory.
I just went through two mint sewn bags of New York state quarter before I shipped them. At the end of the last bag, I finally found one. A straight clip of about 6%.. The only other thing I found was a rim gouge and I have no idea how it got there. I have had these darn bags for 15 years and just couldn't let them go without a lookie-see.
I think this is a PMD 1937 made from a board Tool & Die Maker with access to either a lathe or laser cutter and unable to center the coin when scribing the Obverse. Probable scribed made much later than 1937.
While looking for DD Attributes I found this reference you may want to check out. I am not able to properly identify the characteristics of your coin. From what I can see your coin looks like a Collar Clash .. check it out and let us know. http://maddieclashes.com/collar-clash.html
I fail to see why we try to guess what happened to this coin. It has functioned a long time and subject to a lot of handling and mishandling. None of this mitigates that its grade is only good. Or you might say in the future it becomes treasurable as an ancient coin.
