Is discoloration on only one side of a coin a mint error.

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Is discoloration on only one side of a coin a mint error.

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I have a 2016 Theodore Roosevelt quarter and the obverse and reverse of the quarter is different colors the front is shiny like Silver and the back is brown like copper. Is this a common discoloration occurrence or is this an error coin. The picture was taken with a flash I can provide a picture without the flash if that helps. I'm also adding a side view.
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It's sometimes a normal appearance . What do you have it in ? Or was this plucked from Circulation ?
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Just saying...coins can be tarnished/stained/altered from a number of different environmental happenings. Maybe it spent some time sitting in the bottom of someone's car cupholder on top of some spilled liquid for a month or so? Maybe it was under someones work bench in a very shallow puddle of semi-caustic chemical? Hard to tell, but not hard to find examples of.
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SensibleSal66 wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:48 am It's sometimes a normal appearance . What do you have it in ? Or was this plucked from Circulation ?
This was something I found in my pocket change.

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