1974 D Quarter With Alignment Error? And Missing Leg Of R On Reverse

I wouldn't think the letters touching the wings and the wings being dented would be PMD. But what do I know. Thanks

Your coin has a very, very slight missaligment? or maybe a very light tild. Not enought to be an error.

What I see it is a Die in stage of deterioration which was repolish. In that time was still in place this procedures. The Die was repolish? Yes. Look at the letters near the wing, has like a small courved valey. Also the Quarter Dollard which touch the rim due to repolishing of the die and so the internal flow of the material go more versus the rim because of vertical lack of space. In 1974 the Mint try to avoid this effect by lowering the Hub Design and adjust some details.

1975 and 1976 this design was not strike due to the bi-centenary Design production.

In 1977 the design was more lowered and the details reworked, and from that time this effect almost dissipare.

The letter R (the leg) could be from repolishing the Die or simply occasionally from the grease.

Hope now you understand more about those effects. Me I can not tell annomaly because it is not the production, it is an effect due to mentenancy.

I don't think Die Deterioration is considered a mint error. It's just something that happens as the die ages. In that era of production, the lettering would get fatter as the metal between the letters wore down. Here is a post I made comparing a nickel struck from a badly deteriorated die to a normal nickel:

http://goccf.com/t/451415