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1979 Washington Quarter Weight 5g

 
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 Posted 01/25/2023  3:56 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add gigi2110 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello everybody! I found this coin in a bank roll, I need some help to find out if this is damaged or something else. It weight 5g, when suppose to weight around 5.75. The rim is also a little weird. Thank you for your help.










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 Posted 01/25/2023  4:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nick10 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Your coin looks to match number 6 in the list of Dirty Dozen Damages. Even though there is no premium value to these, you might try to find a nice example of each.

1) discoloration - stains from coffee, or environmental damage from being buried, heated, etc.
2) scrapes over much of the coin - damage from sliding on pavement, a parking lot coin
3) coin bent or edges not round - it has been smashed with a hammer
4) coin blank on all or most of one side - someone sanded it down
5) mirrored lettering - a vise job, a coin squeezed against another in a vise
6) rough, pebbly surfaces - coin that received an acid bath
7) smooth rims, smaller diameter - has been trapped rolling inside a dryer, a " dryer coin"
8) clear mounds on coin - glue that has dried transparently
9) small indentations in the shape of the letter D - marks left by the impact of the reeded edge of another coin
10) large blisters - coin exposed to high heat, such as in a campfire
11) shapes, often letters or numbers, not indented or raised - Pareidolia (like animal shapes in a cloud)
12) a circular scrape just inside the rim - "ring of death" caused by a coin rolling machine

Don't despair! Error coins remain ready to find from circulation, but they are outnumbered by unusual looking coins that merely have been damaged. If you can imagine a way to change an undamaged coin into one like you see, that's probably exactly what happened to it. Changes to a coin after it leaves the mint's striking chamber are considered post mint damage, or PMD, and have no premium value.
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 Posted 01/25/2023  4:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gigi2110 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you @Nick10
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 Posted 01/25/2023  4:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Agreed,acid damage.
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 Posted 01/25/2023  4:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gigi2110 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you John!

Then that can change the weight of the coin?
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 Posted 01/25/2023  5:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MetalEarth to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Great pictures!

@nick10 wonder if we can help find links to images for your wonderful post.
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 Posted 01/25/2023  6:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cujohn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
gigi, yes. The acid has eaten away the copper inside layer, along with the copper from the copper nickel outside layers.
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 Posted 01/25/2023  8:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gigi2110 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ohhhh! Thanks for the info @Cujohn
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 Posted 01/25/2023  8:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gigi2110 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you @Dearborn! I will keep it for myself.
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