Intresting Looking Coin

HAHAHA--"Peanut Butter Cup"....LOL

Here is that link again called
"Re: Need Help on Type of Error Coin"

....seems the link didn't take last time.

http://community.ebay.com/t5/Coins-...89412/page/4


I'm still unsure how this coin came to be...

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Here is one of the answers from that page with a good explanation:

The error there occurred when someone loaded the wrong metal strip into the blanking machine. (There's a few of these listed on ebay).

A more scarce error is a quarter struck on a dime planchet. That's a coin struck on a blank intended for a dime - a blank that's thinner, and the diameter of a dime. ($250 - $350 for clad quarter on clad dime blank).

A quarter struck on an already struck dime (overstruck) is even scarcer. That would have to be what this is, or else there is no explanation for the "rays" (which I believe are from the reeding on a struck dime). But even then, I would think this piece would command a premium over an "ordinary" overstruck piece because of the appearance of the exposed copper on the obverse and reverse, it is well centered, and especially because of the uniformly radiating "rays".

Unlike the other coins you posted, this one has an entry in the Mint Error News "price guide" - Washington quarter Clad - struck on Roosevelt dime Clad ($2,000 to $3,000).

The coin was acid treated primarily in the perimeter area. It's not an error coin.

When you mentioned struck dime planchet I was thinking the rays were the rim of the dime. But I thought a quarter struck on a dime planchet would keep the same size of the dime and you would expect to see the quarter details off-center?

I disagree, coop. Usually if you acid dip a coin, it'll make the coin all bubbly and stuff.

And it also depends on what acid your using . Some acids can eat through it completely . Some can separate plating and when you add current some can add plating so it depends but I was looking at it and even if it was a dime planchet the lines from the reed ing would be gone because the pressure of the die idk what I was thinking before but yeah PMD Reese cup.

No, although I don't think acid was involved here either. Acid can eat away a coin with perfect equilateral smoothness, imparting a nice matte finish.

If the coin has reeding, and it does, it had to have been properly struck in a collar originally. No other answer is possible. And if it were struck on Dime stock, one has to wonder just how thin the resulting coin would be if it managed to reach the collar all around. It's not round - something you'd expect from a Quarter struck on Dime stock - but you'd expect no reeding on the areas which didn't touch the collar.

Is the reeding visible all the way around the circumference?

I'm actually kinda intrigued by this one.

Acid won't explain why the coin is no longer round.