2000 Maryland Quarter Error Help
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This coin has a lot going on that I’m not familiar with so any help would be greatly appreciated! Obverse, liberty and Washington are stamped multiple times in a rotating fashion. Reverse, I’m told the cut groove through the tower is PMD. How the groove lines up perfectly with the tower’s groove is beyond me! I took pictures of every break in the building showing the same groove but it’s not deep like the towers groove. Lastly, the image on the reverse seems to spread out across the coin like the obverse.
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Learn before you look.
I will definitely agree PMD on the groove but what causes the multiple images on the coin?
Learn before you look.
If you look before you learn what to look for, you'll never find anything worthwhile.
Also, it doesn't bode well if you are seeing "multiple images" on the coin. It indicates you are not approaching coins with the right knowledge, the right eye, or the right attitude.
IkesT could you guide me as to where I can read about the multiple images. Or is this information in the same book Manifest_Destiny sent? Forgive my ignorance I’m new but I definitely have a good attitude, I love everything about coins.
There are no multiple images. What you are seeing is simply pareidolia, if anything.
You’re over anaylizing your quarter. To see a true error, you would not need
all the arrows and lines. It would be obvious to the eye without magnification.
If you are looking for errors (which are very rarely found in pocket change)
suggest reading up on how coins are minted and what a true error is. You
could probably eliminate about 99% of the coins you think have an error.
Just because there is an anomoly on a coin, it does not make it an error.
Manifest_Destiny's book is a joke. It's become a forum classic because of threads like this.
Every coin looks different because every coin has different damage, random damage. Your brain tries to bring order to the disorder (pareidolia) and so you interpret random marks as being familiar motifs.
Go to Heritage.com and look at the thousands of error coins in the auction archives. If you care about varieties, go to varietyvista.com and look at the hundreds of varieties.
There are also numerous legitimate references on errors and varieties that will explain things. Avoid the YouTube channels that are hyping getting rich through errors. If you want the SECRET to errors, it is that you will never make enough money on errors to be worth the time it takes to find them.
Coin roll hunters like the search and spend thousands of hours searching coins. They rarely find an error or variety that is worth more than $10. They do it for the fun of it, not to get rich. So anyone hyping getting rich on errors is not to be trusted.
Buy an album. Buy rolls, fill it up. You have objectives that you can reach. Put aside the random things you don’t understand to study later.
Thank you everyone great advice and I’ll use y’all’s references and educate myself a little better before I get to excited.