1975 Quarter On 1966 5 Cents; What?

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TerryT Pillar of the Community Canada 822 Posts	Posted 10/15/2017 01:14 am I've been checking every coin that was in pocket change since about 1970 up to 2010. Way back, I found this beat-up quarter and thought it looked odd. The images were weak and it was a bit off-centre. The caribou's eye looked like a bigger bulge than normal. I put it aside in a 2 x 2 and marked it as off-centre, incomplete caribou head, weak strike, and left it at that. Many years later after, using a loupe, I noticed something else. There seemed to be an impression of another coin on the reverse. I thought maybe someone had fun with a hammer and smacked another coin on it, and again it just got put away. With this and other coin sites having all kinds of error posts, I was looking through mine again and came upon this coin again. Having seen many photos of basement-made "errors" in other posts, where two coins were forced together by vise or hammer, the impression was always backwards. On my coin, it's not, and it doesn't look like it is impressed into the quarter. A head-scratcher, I didn't know what to make of it. How could there be an impression of a nickel on a quarter ? After checking it some more, I saw the ghost image of 5 CENTS by the letters NADA. The rim is doubled just above it and there are "stretch-marks" aligned from the centre to the rim. More head-scratching. Then it hit me. I have a scale that measures to a hundredth of a gram. Look up weight of 1975 quarter - 5.07 grams, look up weight of 1966 nickel - 4.50 grams. EUREKA ! Mine is 4.48/4.52 grams. It's a darn 1966 nickel used to make a 1975 quarter, impossible. Or was someone making basement jobs at the Mint ? Report this Post to the Staff

canadian-varieties Pillar of the Community Canada 1442 Posts	Posted 10/15/2017 01:17 am WOW! A beauty! Report this Post to the Staff
Bigchip22 Valued Member Canada 458 Posts	Posted 10/15/2017 02:09 am sho knows many back room issues Report this Post to the Staff
john100 Pillar of the Community Canada 5324 Posts	Posted 10/15/2017 09:21 am Here is a perfect example, if PCGS would slab it as you call it, this coin would be worth a few hundred bucks, without the authentication not much, it's so hard to see. Report this Post to the Staff
loonielewy Pillar of the Community Canada 1781 Posts	Posted 10/15/2017 09:28 am Good stuff! Congrat's on keeping it for so long and then finding the gem it is so many years later. Shows that another look through your coins may be more than just fun. "We are poor little lambs...who have lost our way...Baa...Baa...Baa" In memory of those members who left us too soon... In memory of Tootallious March 31, 1964 - April 15, 2020 In memory of crazyb0 July 27 2020. RIP. In memory of T-BOP Oct. 12, 1949 - Jan. 19, 2024 Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 10/15/2017 12:11 pm I had a similar one... 1977 25c struck on a 1975 5c "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
TerryT Pillar of the Community Canada 822 Posts	Posted 10/15/2017 5:40 pm I'm going to go through all my 70's quarters and see if there are any more. Same employees doing it over several years ? Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 10/15/2017 9:43 pm I have another one, 1979 25c struck on a 1978 5c... these could be legit, it could be employees finding struck coins on the mint floor, and rather bother putting it in its proper hopper, they toss into the nearest one to "make it go away"... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Andy888 Valued Member Canada 324 Posts	Posted 10/16/2017 1:56 pm Great coin to find in your change! I agree with John100 Report this Post to the Staff
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