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I found this while coin searching yesterday .. I am kinda in shock.. The only explanation I can find is that a piece of gold was left on die and got struck into this quarter, but then . Why would gold even be in a quarter die? Help!!   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very strange!  |
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I THINK I can see a word .. maybe Hayes across the eye in the second picture.. maybe Rutherford Hayes.. that was a gold coin..
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pass my specs!  to the CCF! |
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with the prices of gold, I'd be surprised that anyone would waste ever a micro gram of the stuff. What it looks like is a circulation hit from another coin - maybe from a gold colored coin (such as a Sacagawea dollar and there was some transfer of its cladding.. (Just a working theory) Edited by Dearborn
05/08/2024 12:42 pm
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€thanks ... It looks to be partially inside the coin .and the last picture looks like splatter of the metal .. and to be hit exactly in the Lowe's point of the face , which is the eye..it really looks to be during minting . But I know very little, so I came for help . Thanks for the input.. I am thinking about sending it to have it checked out ..
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Bedrock of the Community
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Try giving it a soak in acetone and see if it comes off.
Errers and Varietys.
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No it doesn't come off .. check this out . The plot thickens  |
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We could make up some conspiracy theories about it.... Someone filled a nasty gouge in the coin with some gold solder. It wouldn't cost much at all to do so.  |
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Most likely yellow brass from the zinc mixing with copper.
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Look at the edge. Seems like maybe it was spooned or a Dryer Coin? Either one of those situations could gouge deep enough into the eye to hit copper, or grind an errant bit of metal into the coin face. |
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Has anyone ever seen a quarter with the entire rim copper or with a copper rim outside of the normal rim? I personally think it is from within coming out . With my loup I can see that it is not melted into it . Whatever it is has 80 , 60, 90 degree straight lines . Melting would be rounded .. you can see that the b in liberty doesn't even have room to finish before the rim , but then there is this brass rim that . IDK .
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that last image sure looks like the reeded edge is gone - smoothed over. Most likely a Dryer Coin now that I see that last image. |
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Posted 05/08/2024 12:21 pm
