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New Member
United States
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Hello everyone, long time viewer, first post! I've got an interesting quarter that I need help with. It weighs exactly 5.0 grams, doesn't have a reeded edge like a quarter, has the edge of a nickel, very uniform, unlike a Dryer Coin. It's smaller in diameter than a normal quarter, but slightly larger than a nickel. The back of the coin has the outline of the Texas mission quarter, but it's missing, hasn't been ground off, I can't really explain it, it's there but it's not. There is an X perfectly in the center as well. I tried to take decent pictures, but the microscope I have is like 1200x zoom, so it was hard capturing the coin in its entirety, I apologize for that. Any help identifying this coin would be appreciated, thanks for your time!      |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 To CCF! Your coin isn't an error. It's all PMD. It could have been sanded down or stuck in a dryer. Whatever happened to your coin, it didn't happen during the striking at the U.S mint.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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People makes all kinds of designs on coins and just abuse them, I am not sure why? but now it is just damaged.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree--post-strike damage. Interesting example. Missing metal reduces weight. Keep it as a fun curiosity.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Doesn't really matter how the damage happened.
All that matters is that it could not have happened during
the striking of the coin so it can't be an error.
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Moderator
 United States
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to CCF. Your quarter has simply been sanded down and possibly polished with a very vine grit paper. The 'X' in the middle of the quarter is all that remains on the Design elements of the reverse. (besides the extreme edges of it.) The design is (was) raised and I would expect that the sanding to be a tiny bit convex in attempt to keep the center 'X' and to also eliminate the rest of the design.
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United States
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to the Community!
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New Member
 United States
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Thanks for the replies everyone, I appreciate it! I've seen many Dryer Coins, but have never seen one like this.if someone sanded this coin, they went to great lengths as nothing on the perimeter of the coin has been disturbed. The microscope I used isn't doing me any favors as far as describing the coin, but the back looks like just the silhouette is there. The rim is perfect just like on a nickel, not spooned or like any Dryer Coin I've ever seen. I don't believe it's punched on a nickel planchet, but could it be possible it's stamped on a foreign coin? I know the mint used to mint coins for other countries, don't know if they still do or not? I'm not looking to get rich off this coin, I know the chances of this being something super valuable is next to none, it's just an incredibly odd coin that if someone did alter, they've got no life at all because it would have taken some serious time and effort to create this. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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to the CCF This coin has been sanded. We see a lot of these here.
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Posted 04/28/2025 07:05 am
