I don't know what to make of this. It's a West Virginia State Quarter. The reeding is intact. Both sides look like they're very weak strikes. A couple spots look like the metal has been melted. Each side has a brownish spot that at first glance looks like someone torched the coin to try to melt it. But, as I said, the reeding isn't melted, and the "scorched" area on the obverse doesn't line up with the discolored area on the reverse. It looks like the brown/copper colored spots are the inner core oozing out. So what IS this? Could the planchet have been too soft when it was struck so the impressions didn't take?
Doesn't look like anything that could possibly happen at the mint. Just a guess here but I would say someone took a wire wheel to it from a bench grinder. I'm also guessing that the "hot spots" are from where the coin was held under the wire wheel longer causing it to heat up and create the ripple effect from wear. I vote PMD
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