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@Omfgbbqpwn, first welcome to CCF. Second, I also have never seen anything like that. It looks like the shading that you are showing is dependent on the angle of viewing and thus not some weird environmental or artificial toning. Rather, I'm thinking that perhaps the surface was textured, such as by bead blasting. Any chance of getting a super-close up view of the front?
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Quarter has a strange surface texture - lighting trick? The reeded edge is by far too worn for your quarter to have any luster left to it to do any kind of cartwheeling effect.
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Bizarre effect, never seen anything like it. Your pictures are very good. Looks like some kind of sand blasting while masking off triangles of the coin, where the orientation of the grains leaves some kind of polarization effect. I zoomed your first image and drew lines showing what I see is the orientation of the "pebbles" on the surface. Would that explain it?  |
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Might explain it but not what I was hoping to hear or expecting :(
Why would someone do this? Sure it looks cool, for a federal crime...
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It's not illegal to deface a coin.
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Now those close ups look like a slight dip in some acid.
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I thought it was illegal to deface any legal us tender? Would you mind explaining to me? If not thanks for the tidbit. So people who melt their coins for silver or metal content arent doing anything illegal?
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How would an acid dip make the radials in the coin that kbbppl highlighted?
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Yeah, that's a common misconception. Sorry I'm too lazy to go look up the law again, but as far as I recall the two main things that are illegal are to put advertising on currency, and melt copper cents (maybe nickels as well). You can melt silver and gold coins to your heart's content. You can put pennies on railroad tracks (think of those souvenir penny machines that smash and print them as novelties - perfectly legal), but you can't melt them.
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I thought it was illegal to deface any legal us tender? Nope, it is illegal to melt down cents or nickel five cent pieces (you can do anything else you want to them, you just can't melt them) You are free to do anything you want to any other coin. It IS illegal to deface CURRENCY is such a fashion "so as to render it unsuitable for reissue". Back in the 1870's or 1880's they did have a law forbidding the defacement of coinage because at the time it was a big fad to make love tokens. I'm not sure when that law was repeal but I think it was some time around 1918. In the late 1960's it was illegal to melt down the US silver coins because the government was trying to keep the silver coins in circulation and stop people from hoarding them. Probably because the government was actively withdrawing them from all the coins that came back through the Federal Reserve (They had at least two large machines that processed ALL the dimes, quarters, and halves that came through, separating the silver from the clad). Once the amount of silver in circulation dropped to the point it was no longer worthwhile for the government to recover them, that law was repealed in the late 60's early 70's. Edited by Conder101
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