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I came across this interesting looking quarter on the internet & just love the look so much I wanted to share it... There so many comments on this & I did read a few of them & it seems this could be punched on a dime planchet. I will read more into it for the answer...  I assume this would be a plating error? http://community.ebay.com/t5/Coins-...89412/page/4  |
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First thing I saw was a Peanut Butter Cup.  Edited by Dar
04/13/2015 6:27 pm
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I believe that is just a damaged coin.How it got this way nobody knows but I feel certain it did not come from the mint this way
Edited by jasper62
04/13/2015 6:32 pm
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I agree, like how they make texas cents, maybe it was squeezed between 2 leather pieces?
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Retained Struck-through peanut butter?
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HAHAHA--"Peanut Butter Cup"....LOL Here is that link again called "Re: Need Help on Type of Error Coin" ....seems the link didn't take last time. http://community.ebay.com/t5/Coins-...89412/page/4I'm still unsure how this coin came to be... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Here is one of the answers from that page with a good explanation: The error there occurred when someone loaded the wrong metal strip into the blanking machine. (There's a few of these listed on ebay). A more scarce error is a quarter struck on a dime planchet. That's a coin struck on a blank intended for a dime - a blank that's thinner, and the diameter of a dime. ($250 - $350 for clad quarter on clad dime blank). A quarter struck on an already struck dime (overstruck) is even scarcer. That would have to be what this is, or else there is no explanation for the "rays" (which I believe are from the reeding on a struck dime). But even then, I would think this piece would command a premium over an "ordinary" overstruck piece because of the appearance of the exposed copper on the obverse and reverse, it is well centered, and especially because of the uniformly radiating "rays". Unlike the other coins you posted, this one has an entry in the Mint Error News "price guide" - Washington quarter Clad - struck on Roosevelt dime Clad ($2,000 to $3,000). |
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I didn't think about the reeding of a dime being stretched out . Idk I would like to hear if Mike or Coop agree to that explination?
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The coin was acid treated primarily in the perimeter area. It's not an error coin.
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04/13/2015 9:35 pm
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Well you've definitely got a nice piece or a Reecie's piece . I don't really don't how but I think it's a nice piece.
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04/13/2015 9:47 pm
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When you mentioned struck dime planchet I was thinking the rays were the rim of the dime. But I thought a quarter struck on a dime planchet would keep the same size of the dime and you would expect to see the quarter details off-center?
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Looks like it was acid dipped. Note the overall size of the coin is reduced. You can see flow lines in the copper. PSD. Not a mint error. |
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I disagree, coop. Usually if you acid dip a coin, it'll make the coin all bubbly and stuff.
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I disagree, coop. Usually if you acid dip a coin, it'll make the coin all bubbly and stuff. mmmmm not really, maybe a zincoln but not clad coins. |
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And it also depends on what acid your using . Some acids can eat through it completely . Some can separate plating and when you add current some can add plating so it depends but I was looking at it and even if it was a dime planchet the lines from the reed ing would be gone because the pressure of the die idk what I was thinking before but yeah PMD Reese cup. |
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Two questions: now big is it, and what does it weigh? The first thing that came to my mind is it's one of those coins that has been "shrunk" in a super-powerful electromagnet. See this old thread. I seem to recall hearing that while uniform-alloy coins (like cupronickel nickels and 90% silvers) shrink OK, bimetallic and clad coins go all funny or even tear themselves apart because the different alloys shrink at different rates. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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