For those of you that read my "Hello everyone" post in the "introduce yourself forum", this is the coin I have questions about.
THE STORY
My son has a lemonade stand on the corner next to our house. He told me that a man bought a glass of lemonade and gave him this quarter as a tip. He told my son that it was a special quarter and that he should put it in his pocket instead of the tip jar and keep it in a safe place. I am a novice coin collector so I need help to know if this was intentional or a flaw. I set my Fuji on macro and tried to get the best pictures at the best angles that shows the most detail.
Picture #1

This image I am trying to show, what looks to me like a part of a circular stamp that has a beginning and an end. It shows up better in the last image. Also you can see the flaw across the face. The flaw across the face
as not discolored the coin at all. It is almost smooth but has the appearance of chipped metal, if that makes sense. I have seen something similar with a piece of rock shell. Chip it and you will see small ridges where the chip was removed.
Picture #2

The crack or line.
Also in this image, if you look across the facial flaw or mark, the original stamped image faintly continues across the flaw such as the neck line, neck, side of the face and nose.
Picture #3 and #4 are from other angles.


Tell me what you think. If you see something I don't, please point it out. I really want it to be a special coin. But if not, like I said I am a novice and will soak up any knowledge offered to me from this forum.
Well I still have about two hours of daylight left. I think I will load the family and drive south to an old ghost town that use to be a mining community. The kids can chase lizards and collect lizard tail for there collection. My wife will kick back and read her copy of Eclipse and I will grab my metal detector and see if I can add to my collection.
Thanks
Sorry for the picture quality, I am also a novice at taking pictures of coins. If anyone wants the original images for closer inspection let my know and I can email them to you. I have found that you can see the detail much better if you can zoom in on it.