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@5toy, a good first impulse to have us that you have a damaged coin rather than a mint error. When you say that this quarter is thin, how thin is it? Can you please post a picture of the edge? Thx.
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Yikes that is wicked thin! I'm struggling to think of a scenario where such a thin planchet could have any details struck up on it though. Also it seems unlikely that the rim would be formed on the obv without and reeding on the rim. My thought is that someone has immersed this coin in acid for so long that the copper core is completely gone and this remnant is the obverse third of the coin.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
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 Sounds very plausible, Spence. Can't imagine any other way it may have happened |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks like an acid dipped coin. PMD in my opinion. Errers and Varietys.
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I agree with PMDI'm sure it is a typo, the coin pictured is 1974 |
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I'll go with that this 'quarter' was subjected to heat until the obverse cladding separated from the copper core.
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Thread title fixed @chase.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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The interesting things people do to coins in the name of entertainment, heh!
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I'm with Dearborn on this one - intense heat caused the clad layer to become separated from the core.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Any chance that this is half of a Magicians coin that someone tossed into a fire? Hard to say with those images, but the back could have been machined in a circular pattern. |
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Posted 04/16/2026 06:21 am
