First off I snapped a few pictures of this (sorry for the quality as i dont have a decent camera). http://solar.wacky.ws/coin . This is a year 2000 South Carolina quarter. As you can tell by the pictures it was stamped off center on both sides. Another thing that i couldnt seem to get a decent picture of was the fact the edge is smooth. The are no "lines or texture" im not really sure what you call them. The coin is not in brand new condition and has been in circulation. It is the same condition as any other quarter i would pull out of my pocket at a random time. I was just wondering what or if anything it might be worth. Thank you
Howdy wacky - Welcome to the Forum !! It looks like to me that you have a coin that was struck out of the collar. That's why it doesn't have any reeding and also why it is slightly off center. As to value, it may be worth a few bucks.
Mike - help ME get educated with errors It had to be struck out of the collar to not have reeding - yes ? But a coin can be off center and still be struck in the collar - yes ?
Off-center strikes almost inevitably show no reeding. That's because the planchet is positioned above the collar during the strike and depresses it during the strike. Often the collar isn't even deployed during an off-center strike. There is one exception to this general rule. An off-center planchet can be forced completely into a collar that's frozen in the "up" position. What you have then is an area of full collar contact at one pole and a complete absence of collar contact at the opposite pole. Such errors have been termed "ram strikes", since the coin is rammed into the unyielding collar. The face struck by the anvil die has a rounded shoulder while the opposite face shows a vertical flange.
