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No way to tell for sure,other than someone with too much time on their hands. It is just damage. John1  |
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It is all damage--maybe a hammer, maybe a pick or something else pointy. In any case this one is a spender.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Rest in Peace
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Pillar of the Community
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Keep looking!  to the CCF! |
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Maybe run over many times on a highway.
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Endless outside of the mint possibilities...or maybe inside the mint after striking.
KK
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It's Post Strike Damage (it happened after it left the U.S. Mint). It's almost impossible to tell what happened to it, since there's so many possibilities. It's only worth face value.
Errers and Varietys.
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I'd guess it got caught in some sort of machinery in the mid-'80's and then repaired with a hammer and file. Until very modern times the mint was loathe to accept these back and few banks bothered to try to redeem mangled coin. They simply wouldn't accept bad coin so people repaired them. A few taps with a hammer and a moment of filing and almost any mutilated quarter can be used in a vending machine or coin counter.
Now days the FED appears to be actively recalling bad coins and even heavily worn quarters. This one will eventually get spit into a reject bin and be shipped to (I believe) New York for destruction.
It hasn't had a lot of circulation so it might not work in many vending machines. Coins that don't work in machines have a short life and won't actively circulate well.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Car crushers and shredders are a common source of mangled coin.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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You never know what happened to coins that look like that but sure makes you wonder. |
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