Reeding Error, Wear or Ground Down? 2016 Quarter
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Hey All,
I know we get a lot of "IS THIS WORTH ANYTHING!!!???" threads on here. Don't want to be "that guy." Just curious as to your opinion on this piece I grabbed out of pocket change today. 2016 Cumberland Gap Quarter
The reeding seems to be missing just from the copper part of the edge. The edges are very smooth and don't seem to have been filed off. Also the collar seems particularly high. Any possibility it escaped the mint this way?
May just be a weirdly specific kind of wear on it. I thought its a neat little piece. Opinions?
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Looks altered. Too sharp & too thick. Are there any fine concentric lines around the edge?
My guess is that it was pressed into something.
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It's been 'tapped' on the edges - PMD
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Thanks all!
If you look closely (I can see it in your pic) you can see the fine lines going around the perimeter of the edge. Done after it left the mint. Sanded, spooned, and whatever; someone was trying to make something (or experimenting) with that quarter. IMO
'spooned'. As mentioned the edges have been tapped down.
If you visualize the minting process, if a quarter was struck without reading then the collar was not in place (or the blank was not in the collar), in which case it would be broadstruck and larger than normal.
Yes... definitely PMD....looks as if it were tapped and then finely buffed...Cheers, RickO
Pmd
I have the exact same quarter my wife found it in her drawer at work. Same year same everything was someone experimenting with mine too?
Probably not the same person, but someone did
the same thing to your Quarter.
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A coin with smooth edges and a thick raised rim has been altered, either in the manor that Fred noted which is often referred to as spooned as a spoon is a common tool used to do this. It may also be a dryer coin, coins that get stuck in a dryer for a length of time will also have a very similar look.
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People spoon coins like this as the first step in making a ring sometimes. A guy I work with just showed me a dime he got in change at McDonalds that had been spooned like that. I showed him this video on YouTube
https://youtu.be/CSsHWJr5DS0
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And then they realize how difficult it is and that's how and why the OP found it in change....
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Or maybe it is the same quarter... @Albatross1985 has been robbed!
I don't think that is coincidence that I have a 2016 p quarter that is exactly the same it just looks to good then. Plus on top of the quarter the lettering is different like it didn't get a good strike and the edges come up how can you push the edges up just by spooning I think we're on to something because I've seen other 2016 p quarters that are the SAME.
Maybe someone did more than one and maybe not making it a coincidence
Either way : it’s been “tapped” on the edge
It is spooned. People make rings out of coins by spooning. You aren't onto anything except a damaged coin.
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Neat video. I have heard of this but that was the first time I saw the process.
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I want a nice chubby ring!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gwWVAJgoUN4
Why are there so many 2016 Shawnee with no ridges??? They haven’t all been altered… Too many of the same quarter to have all been altered..
Spooned coin to make a ring.
This project was abandon quickly.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Another ring making method. I think this makes a more attractive ring.
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Thanks for the video.
This method is more practical than using a spoon. lol
Wayne
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If your quarters look like those in the first four photos,
then, yes, they've all been altered.
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I've seen Half Dollars look like that as well.
What I understood that happened is things can happen in coin sorting/counting machines where the coin gets caught in some of the moving/spinning parts and chews the edge off the coins.
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I have one of the same quarters that yall claim have been "spooned"....but tell me why is this quarter smaller than a normal quarter
Because it has been spooned.
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