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1974 Quarter Mint Mark And Toning

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 Posted 05/20/2021  4:31 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Robert hensley to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I found this 1974 quarter and looked strange. I can see the circle in the middle might be toning but I don't understand what happen to the mint mark?
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 Posted 05/20/2021  4:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like a partial broken post on the MM. As for the toning, maybe a dime was lying on top of it for a long time?



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 Posted 05/20/2021  4:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add IsThisAnything to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
From these pictures, my guess is staining. The mint mark might be circulation flattening. It doesn't quite look like a broken post. Just my Two Cents, hang out for more opinions.

Edit: I see that partially broken post now that you point it out, Coinfrog. I missed your comment at first while replying at the same time.
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05/20/2021 4:44 pm
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 Posted 05/20/2021  5:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Agree with partially broken post. with a good deal of circulation wear (maybe an old hit then worn).
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That ring around the obverse looks suspiciously like a coin-crimping ring, where this coin may have been an ender on a bank roll of quarters. It may have stayed like that for a while to get it to tone differently. Just a few of my thoughts.
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05/20/2021 5:57 pm
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 Posted 05/20/2021  6:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add merclover to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Environmental toning/staining. I am in the broken post camp as well.
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 Posted 05/20/2021  8:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Robert hensley to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the input I have never seen a coin like this so it beak my curiosity
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 Posted 05/20/2021  9:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You have to remember that some coin are tossed into fountains at the malls. This can discolor a coin when left there for a long time.
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