1995 P Washington Quarter Mint Error - Broadstruck On Blank

For this I will go more versus Testing Coin. The Die was complete new. When they test the presses is no collar involve. Like this they can test the resistance of the material, the design and adjust the forces of the strike without rebound strike forces,

In time was used Graebner presses. (German made) My brother was the first Germany metallurgical minister counselor and I saw this in 1987 when come and took me at the Mint. In fact in that time the Mint prepare for the new designs. So they do many test like this and my brother his team took the parameters and tests result to be able to accomplish the up-gradate of the presses for the new production designs. We was at West Point and Philadelphia. Many US companies was also involved. Next year I was not able to go when he come. When he was there I was near and lessening what the Germans talk and understood what they look for. Normally those coins was suppose to be destroy. My brother has a very nice collection of them because they give him one of the all stages of testing. Me NO.

The only way to have an official confirmation it is the Mint to publish internal studies and papers. Will never happened because it is high state security.

Just look at your coin and you will understand that this it is not normal broad-strike.

Cool coin in VEDS. Lots of crisp sharp details.




Would your brother's collection and its provenance be a way to prove it without the mint's official confirmation?

Another super find, congrats.

Thanks for the super comments! Let's see, what does it take to make my keeper cut? Well, since I mostly collect Lincoln cents a quarter has to catch my eye as something I personally find unique or interesting. I have a number of broadstruck quarters already in my collection, so even if a coin is gem BU that isn't enough for me to want to add it. Along those lines, how I acquired this one along with the other quarters I posted, was by buying a box of 60 error coins. Now that gets pretty expensive ($2K+), and honestly something has to get sold off to recover at least some of the costs while still keeping the coins I most like. Hope that makes sense.

And yes, this coin appears to have been struck on a blank, not a planchet. Really doubt it was intentional, as coins struck on blanks are seen now and again.

My ebay handle is listed on this site in that section, or usually you can look at the banner under the first post of any thread I start, like this one, and click in to my sales that way (taking an off week so just one thing in there right now). Just posting errors for folks to look at here, not trying to sell them, but you can always PM me if you want to chat about that end of things. My usual rule over the years has been that I don't post anything I am going to sell on ebay to avoid the appearance of impropriety, but honestly I've been selling some stuff folks here would probably enjoy seeing so over the past half a year or so have posted some coins that were just going to get sold off like this one.

Thanks Mike! I've always sort of wondered how a blank jumps the mill so to speak. My guess was that the mill wasn't calibrated properly more so than blanks bypassing it altogether. But honestly my guess isn't based much on fact just random supposition. And your comment helps cement a brick I always remind myslef of, "common things are the things commonly found." Meaning, if you find something it is generally not the most rare thing, but the most common thing. If I end up with a 1995 on a blank, it makes sense that that is the most common year for them.