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Quarter Is Size Of 1$dollar Coin And Looks Odd Found In 1$coin Roll, Any Idea If Mint Error? (2020)

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 Posted 03/25/2023  8:50 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add eric00876 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
its exact size of the dollar coin I see the word tallgrass prarie and the front says in god we trust like a Quarter would...

hello its my bday today and just wondering if anyone could tell me what this is , I am a amature and am trying to learn and might sell oneday I have not many rare stuff this might be my best findif real



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 Posted 03/25/2023  9:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hfjacinto to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That looks like it was smashed with a hammer you can even see the round circles of the hammer head. It's not even worth a quarter anymore.
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 Posted 03/25/2023  9:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@eric, first welcome to CCF. Second, yes this quarter has been mechanically damaged, perhaps somewhat in the same way that Texas Cents are created. None of this is a mint error.
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 Posted 03/25/2023  9:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyD to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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You might never find out exactly what happened to it
but you can be sure that it didn't look like that when it
left the mint. Just a damaged coin that you couldn't
get a quarter for now.
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 Posted 03/25/2023  9:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add datadragon to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There are some rare 'mules' which is the combination of two dies which were never intended to be paired together. For example, a 2000-P Washington quarter obverse struck with a reverse of a Sacagawea dollar. https://www.PCGS.com/top100/coin6 And there are coins struck on the wrong planchet for another coin or a foreign coin sometimes for future knowledge.

But in most cases like this one it appears someone beat that quarter causing the increase in size rather than being minted on a dollar planchet so .
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 Posted 03/25/2023  9:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add eric00876 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My issue is wouldn't it be impossible to flatten a quarter into a 1$ bill without completely destroying it beyond the picture? I really thought maybe it was a rare mint error cause it's a 2020 quarter
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 Posted 03/25/2023  10:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add john100 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just weigh it, that should give you your answer
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 Posted 03/25/2023  10:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Earle42 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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My issue is wouldn't it be impossible to flatten a quarter into a 1$ bill without completely destroying it beyond the picture? I really thought maybe it was a rare mint error cause it's a 2020 quarter

I am not being mean or negative when I say I can tell from this statement that you are unfamiliar with how coins are actually made or you would know nothing in the minting process can possibly make a coin look like this.

Please remember the people here know how the coin minting process works. Anyone familiar with process will easily recognize your coin as being nothing but post mint damage.

A person trying to find actual error coins without knowing how coins are made is like someone trying to figure out which part of their car's engine is broken without having any knowledge of how a car engine works.

Unlike many youtube and ebay videos today that make people think they can jump right in, easily find a rare coin with little trouble, and sell it for a fortune.

Anyone with years in the hobby with years of experience looking for coins will tell you that is not the case at all. It takes knowledge to know what kind of errors are possible in the minting process and what is not.

The best thing you can do for yourself is first learn HOW coins are made. The look up how DIES are made,. The time spent doing this will more than pay for itself. Instead of spending time after time of finding nothing and hoping it is something valuable, you will be able to tell what is actually collectable and what is not.
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 Posted 03/25/2023  10:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NumismaticsFTW to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I understand you're new but did you actually think this was an error and came out of the Mint this way?
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 Posted 03/25/2023  11:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Khromtau to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is also not a good idea to keep coins in vinyl 2x2's, the one in the picture looks to be vinyl. You can tell by how flexible it is, Mylar is not very flexible while vinyl is quite supple.

I could probably make a quarter into a much larger size round(gold quarter dollar leaf anyone?) ok, not that thin but I could probably get it pretty thin. Naughty Khromtau for thinking about destroying money!
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 Posted 03/26/2023  09:39 am  Show Profile   Check nss-52's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add nss-52 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's been smushed, mooshed, mashed, flattened, hammered, bashed, etc.
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 Posted 03/26/2023  10:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyD to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The fact that it was struck in - collar tells you that it could not have been oversized when struck.
It had to happen after it left the mint.
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 Posted 03/26/2023  10:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Agree with the post-strike damage assessment. Would be good to discover the damaged coin's accurate weight.
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to the CCF and with Earle42, he hit out of the park.
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