I've looked around, and I haven't been able to find anything about this. My wife just found a 2011 Chickasaw Oklahoma quarter with one side blank. The blank itself is about half the thickness of a normal quarter. I might have thought it was an attempt to make a two piece quarter to hide something in, but it it the normal diameter and has ridges on the edge. According to other forum posts on this website, it's virtually impossible for a coin to be struck on only one side--both dies have to be in place to strike a coin at all? If anyone could tell me a little more about what this is, I would appreciate it.
Yeah.... That looks cool. You can bet a kid in shop class was having a little downtime and spun it on a lathe or something similar.
PMD - Post Mint Damage! Interesting way it was done. That's a new one for me. It's usually a circular pattern.
It is post mint damage. As Randy said, somebody was playing around with shop equipment. Only worth face value, assuming you can spend it
Nice novelty piece. I guess it wasn't cut into to two pieces, just ground off the one side. Could have doubled their money.
I thought that at first, but look at it carefully, the lines angles are off from the center. I think a small engraving bit. doesn't matter. Although with the value side ground off is it now worthless or still 25 cents.
We get a lot of these types of coins here. I suppose a lot of people are very bored and entertain themselves by defacing coins. Sort of like a kid who takes apart a clock to see how it works.
Yep! All we can really do is speculate what actually happened. "Will the real culprit please stand up?" Chris
Welcome to CT. This thread is over 2 years old. Start your own thread with good pictures of the obverse and reverse. You will get more responses.
