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Hi! I found a quarter in my register a while back, and saw that the side looked a little thicker than normal, so I picked it up. And it turned out that it wasn't thicker, but part of the reverse face was not stuck to the rest of the coin. Here's some pictures:      From what I can tell, it's not anything like a magic trick/hollowed out coin, as under the face is just blank metal. Also note that the face is bent slightly, which is my fault. I was trying to see under the face to see and I guess I moved it a little too far. Oops! When I got it, it was still a tiny bit away from the rest of the quarter, but not to the extent is is now. The place where it "connects" to the rest of the quarter, though, didn't move - it's not necessarily "peeling off"; it's just not attached to the body of the coin on that half. Anybody ever seen anything like this/know how this happened? I could see it being PMD (someone bored enough might be able to make this happen) but I don't know enough about the minting process to figure out if/where/how this happened. Thanks! Edited by flappity
02/12/2014 4:55 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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IMHO I do not think it is PMD |
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Pillar of the Community
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New Member
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Oh, huh, neat. Thanks for giving me the correct term for that type of error! I couldn't figure out what to call it.
Also, wow. I didn't think it had any value at all, it's just in my random oddity collection sitting on my desk. Maybe I should put it somewhere a little safer!
This might have turned out to be one of my better finds in my till so far, then! (Second to my 0000 0016 $1 I found)
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Pillar of the Community
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Really need better, closer pics to be positive. Have you weighed it yet?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Without bending the peel, you will see the design weakened under the peel. That should be the case. But it is a lamination peel. There is another one posted here one time that the lamination folded over before the strike. It look unique.  |
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I weighed it and it comes out to 5.6 or 5.7 which seems accurate (bounces up to 5.7/settles back down to 5.6, I don't have any greater accuracy). I will try everything I can to see the inside, but it might be tough. I do have a cheap microscopic lens for my phone (which is all I have to take pics with, unfortunately) so maybe I can see inside it a bit with that.
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If a genuine error then there is an added value because states quarters with errors are a bit more rare then a non states quarter. John1  |
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I took some pics with my microscope, they didn't turn out super well at all but I tried and did the best I could with my cell phone :( I'm not gonna post the images in this thread and make this an obnoxiously long post, here they are as an imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/QBMXzAs far as seeing a blurred design on the copper, it's really tough to tell. Since the majority of the visible part of the copper is near the edge, under the really thin lettering, I imagine it's going to be very hard to see. I can ALMOST see something under the O's and G in OREGON but like I said, I'm not really sure. And yeah I'm definitely hoping it turns out to be genuine - I've got some big purchases incoming and depending on how much this could be worth, I'd be interested in selling it (though I doubt I'm lucky enough to find anything with a LOT of value :P) |
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It does look like a separated clad layer. Nice find.
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What sort of value would something like this have? I see many "missing clad layer" coins on ebay that have sold for $100+, as well as a non-state quarter that looks similar to mine but with the "flap" folded all the way back (which to me sounds like something that might drop the value) for $75 that has yet to sell, but since mine's a State Quarter I don't know what the difference in value might come out to. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Here is an image of a flapper that got torn off and an image where the clad was missing before the strike. Your coin probably looks like the first one under it. But don't tear it off. I feel the price is better with it attached.  |
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Haha, of course not. I figured having it attached adds a little bit more scarcity to it. I'm mad at myself, though, for bending out outwards a little bit when I got it (to see under it) because I didn't figure it was worth anything and was just something to keep in my oddity pile. Before the flap was bent slightly, it looked almost exactly like a regular quarter, there was almost no space under the flap (raised just enough that the gap was very barely visible).
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I would guess it is a $100 to $150 coin depending on the grade. Here is a 70's quarter someone is trying to get $75 for http://www.ebay.com/itm/1974-Washin...em46182a8ec4 , and it was obviously pushed back and damaged at some point after being minted but it still a really cool error. These types of errors are not very common. Edited by 7TF
02/13/2014 9:26 pm
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