I opened a machine rolled/wrapped roll of the new Florida Quarters at work and found one that has little ribbing on it and each side of the quarter was not stamped but there are some little marks on it. Where can I find out if this is worth anything? I have it put in an envelope until I can get one of those plastic holders for it so it won't get damaged.
First, good to have you here, vic991. Second, is the coin blank and flat on each side (like someone punched a hole out of sheet metal) or are there any tooling marks on the planchet (the blank disc used to mint a coin)? Someone else will be able to speak to value, but I know mint error planchets do bring some value... Aren't you glad you looked?
If you can tell that this "coin" was struck by the FL reverse die then it is a valuable piece probably. It sounds like a die trial strike. In the old days the dies would be cycled with a planchet between them to check die alignment and press condition before a regular run. These coins might have problems if the dies were wrong or the press malfunctioned. Now days the coins that look like die trial pieces are said to be produced when the press is turned off and it coasts to a stop. Such coins are rare and states quarter errors have large premiums over other, similar errors. It probably is worth a few hundred dollars if you can tell it was struck by the dies. If not then it probably is just some sort of defective type 2 clad quarter planchet with nominal value. Good luck.
Blank quarter question Hey I'm new to the coin world and while I was getting change for some dollars out came a round piece of metal the same size, shape, and weight as the quarters that came with it. It's just perfectly smooth on all sides. I was wondering what this is called and how rare this is to happen to quarters and it's value thanks.
Blank planchets are not rare, nor are they common, but they are found from time to time. Value can vary slightly but is typically less than $10.
It's probably this. Does it have a small rough spot along the edge? That'd be where it was detached from the box.
Pictures pictures pictures! We need pictures to see what it is and to give you an estimated value, without pictures its like buying a car without ever looking at it first.
I was under the impression he received the change for the dollars from a person, but I suppose it's more likely they'd be from a machine. Well, if the quarters in the machine were just dumped in from opened rolls, any foreign coin (or slug) that was in the roll could have gotten in. But we'll see, if the guy responds to this. Maxmp08, also, is there reeding on the edge?
I asked for a roll of golden dollars from a credit union. When I opened it up, I found an Irish 2p coin which is the same diameter as a dollar coin. I took it back to the CU to get the roll exchanged. They told me that they had "no way of verifying the truth of my story." I must have spent over $3 in gas on this futile endeavor! Needless to say I will never use their services again.
I roll search pennies once in a while and find some strange things. Usually just a Canadian penny or a penny from someother country but once I found a 5 grocy piece from Poland. Same size but golden in color. I also heard a story once of a guy who found a 1/10 oz gold eagle in a roll of dimes. Same size but I don't know about that one.
And any other bank or credit union would have told you the same thing. Guess you need to stop using all banks and credit unions.
