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Quarters Errors? Or If It's Just Another Regular?

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Hello, I'm hoping if someone could please tell me if the scrathes on this quarter was make like this,or from just circulation?

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They are intentional damage, not an error.

Calm down on the CAPS, please.
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@cd, yes those scrapes occurred after this coin was put into circulation. This coin is only worth face value.
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To keep from unessary future posting,hos exactly can I tell the difference from intentional scratches? and from errors?
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More all caps are not needed dude.

However, to answer your question, scratches on a modern coin are virtually always going to be damage. There was a time when individual coins were weighed and then filed down to bring them into Weight Tolerance, but those days are well behind us. Also, those so-called adjustment marks were made before the coin was struck. Your coin's scratches came after the coin was struck. Finally, sometimes there are scratches on the dies used to make coins, but these appear as raised linear bumps due to the coinage process.
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great answer Spence.
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with Spence on all points, too.

If you just look at the coin with some magnification, think if you could do the damage with some tool. If you could take a pin and make those scratches that would look like that (not saying that you should), then it's almost certainly graffiti.

Graffiti is what we call the intentional (not accidental), marks on a coin.
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This is 100 percent Post Strike Damage (happened after it left the U.S. Mint). You can see the pushed over and scratched metal. Worth face value.
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