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Possible 2005 Kansas State Quarter error?
Icy1364
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Im not 100% sure but this shows very interesting signs of a fragment struck coin? I'm not sure thoughts?
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Icy1364
Posts: 21 ✭
Icy1364
Posts: 21 ✭
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It's all damage.
Sorry
for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
Strictly post-mint damage.
How did the edge stay so perfect?
Edge doesn't look perfect on either side.
It received a couple of sharp encounters with something hard and damage will be uneven.
But it is even? The big chip on the bison side of the quarter is right where the U and N in United has been smashed flat. Second the roll on the edge its still there how would that have stayed if it had been damaged wouldent said area all be removed had it been files or smashed or anything like that?? Thats what I don't understand
It is not perfect!
Do an experiment for yourself. See how easy it is to make one of these damaged coins and make the edge "even" as yours.
The edge like the little lip on the edge is still raised that's what I'm getting at i couldn't recreate this if I tried.
How could that damage possibly have occurred during strikingly?
The bulges on the obverse correspond to the indentations on the reverse. That is what happens when you strike a coin with some sort of tool.
Post mint damage.
Experiment yourself.
Get a vise to hold the coin. Get a hammer and screw driver.
Wack away and observe the coin after the fun. Note how the wack on one-side affects the other.
Have fun.
Just because you can't explain how the damage occurred, don't assume it must be an error. There are countless ways for a coin to become damaged after it leaves the mint. You need to explain how it could happen at the mint. The minting and die making processes are well documented and understood.
You received answers from some people who are experts on the minting process. It's like having a theoretical physics professor from MIT helping you with your high school algebra homework. They told you it could not have occurred at the mint.
You have a damaged coin, nothing more.