Strike Thru Louie Quarter ... New Pics.

Without photos there's no way of telling what you have.

OK C.C. Improbable to be sure, but not impossible. To my knowledge there are 4-5 error coins that are known that exhibit this phenomena. Cannot tell you what coins or where they are, just read awhile back that they are known.

The only other way I can imagine this happening is if something got down into the coining chamber. That would seem even less probable considering just how complicated that would get.

The indent on this coin goes about 20-30% of the way down into the planchet. Down in that hole is this real pretty and well formed S. A normal strike thru would have wiped this out, or at least seriously flattened it. Not the case here.

Sorry about pics. Best I have for now.

FYI...It seems only natural to me to locate currently unknown coins.

I used to help document the modern varieties for Walter Breen back in 1963-5. He would come to our coin club once or twice a month to help with our NECA work. Neca was just forming. The club members would dump their coins on my table and I would cherrypick out their varieties and the elders would write it all down. Years later NECA and CONE joined together to become CONECA. Where do you think that variety info came from? Numistmatists.

Walter was an excellent teacher and a good friend. He asked me to help him. I did. He was making a book. Now that was a long time ago. I also knew Arnold Margolis many many years ago. I used to ask him to explain to me the errors that I did not understand. I remember him showing me a dollar coin that had been struck some 18 times. How he could figure that out I still do not know. Said he counted it. I believed him. That coin was a mess and his personal favorite at that time.

Back then people would do that. They would teach and share. It was a lot of fun.

I CPicked my first monster variety in 1959 at a school lunch counter. It was THE 1955 double die cent. I was 6. Had been collecting since I was 3. Peace out. G...

Homer1, You just reminded me of a book I have; "La Histoira Del Valle del Rio Guerte". The history of the Fio fuerte river valley It is in Spanish,obviously, but the point is that it was put together , and the cover was placed "upside down". They destroyed all of them, (They thought), but my Godmother's sister managed to save one for me.
Dick

Homer1. Boy if age ain't getting to me. Cannot remember. I do remember at some point in my past someone laughing about a book published with pages upside down. Caused a minor stir. It would only seem appropriate that Walters Book could have that happen. His life's work turned upside down. His later life troubles saddened me. Gusp

You can read about Breen here.

This is accurate stuff. It is safe to say that he was a researcher but.

Many numismatists take Walter Breen with a grain of salt.

Here's the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Breen

It was such that there were people specifically assigned to keep an eye on him when he attended coin shows between his arrests and when he was not incarcerated just to avoid any problems.