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Found In My Till @ Work: 1978 Quarter, With Queen's Head Stamped Upside Down

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 Posted 03/13/2025  01:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add canadiancoin321 to your friends list
I've figured out how to post a video. I will upload the video of this coin on youtube tomorrow, with close ups of the coin & its circle, pressing it with my finger, using a hammer to whack it, etc. I really wanna know what you guys think about this.
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 Posted 03/13/2025  04:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TuomoS to your friends list
No need to post video. Just made up piece. Pressed out circular part that seems to been friction welded back ,value is only , value of ime, someone wan´t to use talking about it .Maybe good to show at bar after closing hours
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 Posted 03/13/2025  06:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nickelsearcher to your friends list
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This is a damaged coin. It did not leave the mint this way. However it was made does not really matter as its value is only as a novelty.

I do say a really cool novelty however.
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 Posted 03/13/2025  07:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list
Yes, post-strike damage--in this instance, deliberately done in a rather clever way. The coin didn't exit the striking chamber looking like that. And yes, a cool novelty.
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 Posted 03/13/2025  07:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DOCC to your friends list
And how do you propose a die did that?
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 Posted 03/13/2025  08:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add okiecoiner to your friends list
I think that it was cut with a circular hole saw and then soldered back in place, rotated
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 Posted 03/13/2025  08:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyD to your friends list
I have seen this before, someone must have made a couple of them to try and pass off as errors.
That someone has cut out a circle area of the quarter and rotated it.
Just look at the rough edges around the circle.
There is no possible way for this to have happened during the striking of the coin.
Keep as a novelty but it has no numismatic value.
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 Posted 03/13/2025  09:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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I would have to agree that it's intentional post mint damage, but it's a heck of a conversation piece!
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 Posted 03/13/2025  09:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add john100 to your friends list
With today"s tech like laser or water jets cutting tools can do this with precise same effect as this coin, kind of a crude example for 1978 era
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 Posted 03/13/2025  09:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BStrauss3 to your friends list
Don't forget Wire EDM - if they had used this, at the cost of sacrificing a coin, it would be almost impossible to tell...

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 Posted 03/13/2025  10:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add HondoB to your friends list
Thanks for the video, BStrauss3 - I was unfamiliar with that technology. I can envision many shenanigans with it.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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 Posted 03/13/2025  12:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add loonielewy to your friends list
Story time. As a machinist for a career, the most impressive example of craftsmanship I ever saw was shown to me by an inspector who got the parts from a very old source. It was a piece of steel 1/2" thick with a 1" square hole in it. The 2nd piece was a 1" cube. 1X1X1. The cube passed through the hole in all 3 orientations of the cube. Big deal right. Well, he held it in his had for a few minutes, and not one orientation could pass through the hole. The expansion from body heat made the cube too big to fit the hole. Impressive.......wait for it......both parts were made with.... a file!. Blew my mind.
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 Posted 03/13/2025  3:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sharks to your friends list
@canadiancoin321 I agree 100% with neckelsearcher "This is a damaged coin. It did not leave the mint this way. However it was made does not really matter as its value is only as a novelty." PMD all the way.
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 Posted 03/14/2025  03:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
Definitely 100% PMD. It's cool, but it's not a mint error at all.
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