1984P US Washington quarter - Lamination & broadstrike

[Daniel]

While I don't claim to be an expert on every mint error, knowing the minting process and metal reactions with different environments, it's safe to deduce 99% of what's going on with a coin, then add a lifetime of examining coins in so many different conditions and alterations, and I can at least come up with a couple possible explanations.

I do like your plan, try to find more for comparison, since you have the coin in hand you have an advantage. At the least it might save you some submission fees by posting images here.

Anyway, if this coin didn't have a collar to go a long with the absense of reeding then I would have recommended sending it off. One just never knows sometimes.

[roamingcavalier]

Thanks so much guys - I will keep you posted on any developments :)

[Daniel]

Please do, some of us metal detect but enjoy seeing other detector's find.

[roamingcavalier]

I was looking on another forum and there is someone with a similar reeding issue (for a 1987 quarter) and seems to think that the collar die may have been deteriorated - check it out, what do you think... http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... p?t=665602

[Daniel]

Sounds like they have no idea either. I just know you can't have a collar without edge reeding since it can't happen during the minting porcess. Anything thaqt can't happen during the minting process is some form of damage.

[roamingcavalier]

An MD buddy just posted this pic to me, he found this quarter - and doesn`t seem to have another LOL

Hi Vincent, I've found that saltwater can make coins turn rust coloured. Yours seems to be a darker brown though. Just for comparison here's a US quarter that I found at a saltwater beach. Most of the coins there were this colour.``

[roamingcavalier]

Very salty tree then... LOL

[Daniel]

In wonder what you would come up with doing a soil test?

[roamingcavalier]

We use a lot of de-icing salt in Toronto in the winter for walkways etc and the tree where mine was found is about 10-12 feet away from a walkway that runs along the side of the park I was in - could be that the salt was laid over ice then later shoveled around the base of the tree, and the salt melted into the soil in the spring - repeat this several times and it all makes sense (unfortunately LOL) - I have ordered a MS 1984 P quarter online that should be here soon, I'll be checking circumference, thickness, and if I can find someone with a proper scale, weight.

[Daniel]

Interesting. I never thought about the ice-melt. It's good information.

[danielle.arnold]

Hello hello I'm Danielle I have found in 1984 Washington quarter with a p mint mark That's filled in also it looks like either someone has taken tape on it and it's peeling off or it's from the from the mint on the edge it looks like half of its copper it's a different color I'm a send pictures can somebody please help

[Daniel]

This coin is just damaged and a broad struck coin is larger in diameter than a normal coin of the same denomination. You coin has been cut around the edges and is a damaged coin but not a mint error.

[Paul]

:welcome:

I agree with Daniel here, this is (more than) Post – Mint Damage, this is a mangled.