Quarter...

awful pictures...but there's a crack on the obverse from one side to the other...anything here?
It looks almost like the plating has lifted off...

 

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Need better pictures. Looks like a nasty hair stuck to it IMO. Can't pass judgement until you get better pictures

 

Die clash?

Look at the lettering around the top rim, it looks like raised letters in between the main ones there.

 

Oh it's no hair...it's lifted off the coin right at the shadow.
I don't know if I can get any better pics with my camera - I don't do close-ups, ever!
lol

 

I'm seeing what looks like an overlay of glue and a thread trapped in there. Acetone should clean it off, if that's what it is.

 

No dude, the metal is lifted off, as in 'there's a void underneath it...'

 

I think that is what it is. That would give the appearance of it being "lifted off".

 

this might help...

 

Now I see what you mean. I am even more convinced that it is something like dried glue.

 

Have you soaked it in acetone for a few minutes to see if it would loosen it up? I literally had to scrape this off with a sharp knife on Lincoln cents. It doesn't let go easy. You can get acetone at a drug store. I'm with furryfrog02, I think it's dried glue. There looks like there's a little thread stuck in there, too.

 

You have to see it in person - the metal is lifted and there is a lip.
Anyway, it's not dried glue or a thread...

Thanks...

 

I'm not an expert by any stretch of the word but I have never seen anything like what you have besides coins that have dried glue on them. You can check here to see if you can find anything but I don't think there is: http://www.error-ref.com.

 

I don't know, if you look at the shadows, it looks like the top clad layer split & detached from the copper core. The pics are blurry though. It very well could be glue. The only thing I could find on error-ref that sounds like the description is a lamination on clad coin. See link below:

http://error-ref.com/laminations-in-clad-coins.html

 

This "glue" we're talking about dries to the hardness of plastic. Just so you know. This isn't Elmer's Glue we're talking about.

 

But how do you explain the appearance of this:



All of those letters are reversed. That was all caused by glue?

 

BUncirculated, that's how ours were. I thought we had the finds of the century. After an acetone soak, then prying at it with a sharp knife, there went our hopes to be in Coin World, just popped right off.

 

On a completely unrelated note, what sort of factory do old horses go to?

 

I'm guessing that the reversed letters are from another quarter being smooshed into the pictured coin.

 

That's what it is.

 

On a related note, I think I can think of another use for that glue.