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Error Or Damage? [deleted] (2016 Quarter)

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 Posted 11/10/2022  9:02 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Mkd1308 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
So I found this 2016 west Virginia quarter and I was wondering if this was error or damaged? On the dark spots on the reverse, the coin is eroding and starting to peel. The designs are not very sharp. Any input on what this may be would be extremely helpful!!

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 Posted 11/10/2022  9:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@mkd, this quarter did not leave the mint looking like this and is 100% damaged.

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Hard to tell from the fuzzy and pixelated images, but it looks like the coin spent some time in an acidic environment and started etching the cladding away from the surface.
So I would say that the coin did not leave the mint this way and is considered damaged post mint.
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 Posted 11/10/2022  9:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyD to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hard to see any detail with pixilated photos but there is no
way for what you can see to happen during the minting of
the coin. It is just damage.
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 Posted 11/10/2022  9:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Agree with all above--post-strike damage. Images appear to be enlargements of smaller photos--very pixelated.
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Massive damage.

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Hard to tell with these pictures, but likely as other said, it damages done after it came out from the Mint.
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 Posted 11/10/2022  10:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nick10 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Your coin looks to be number 6 in the list of Dirty Dozen Damages:

1) discoloration - stains from coffee, or environmental damage from being buried, heated, etc.
2) scrapes over much of the coin - damage from sliding on pavement, a parking lot coin
3) coin bent or edges not round - it has been smashed with a hammer
4) coin blank on all or most of one side - someone sanded it down
5) mirrored lettering - a vise job, a coin squeezed against another in a vise
6) rough, pebbly surfaces - coin that received an acid bath
7) smooth rims, smaller diameter - has been trapped rolling inside a dryer, a " Dryer Coin"
8) clear mounds on coin - glue that has dried transparently
9) small indentations in the shape of the letter D - marks left by the impact of the reeded edge of another coin
10) large blisters - coin exposed to high heat, such as in a campfire
11) shapes, often letters or numbers, not indented or raised - Pareidolia (like animal shapes in a cloud)
12) a circular scrape just inside the rim - " Ring of Death" caused by a coin rolling machine

Don't despair! Error coins remain ready to find from circulation, but they are outnumbered by unusual looking coins that merely have been damaged. If you can imagine a way to charge an undamaged coin into one like you see, that's probably exactly what happened to it. Changes to a coin after it leaves the mint's striking chamber are considered post mint damage, or PMD, and have no premium value.

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Mkd1308,
. You may want to reword your title a bit...just sayin'
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Please, no screen shots. They are too pixelated to be of use.
Appears to be a parking lot coin. Extreme post mint damage.
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Here's better pics..
They2016 West Virginia Harbors Ferry Quarter if I look through the microscope you can see some doubling. Here are some better pictures
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