check out south carolina quarter in pocket change

coinman420 · October 28, 2006 10:58AM

i always check my change and got out my loupe because the obverse looked like it had struck thru grease or something. turn it over and notice the second 0 in the date is half filled in. look a little more and there is some doubleing on the outline of the state above where it says "the palmetto state". any ideas?

edited title to clarify

MisterBungle · October 28, 2006 11:32AM

check out north carolina quarter in pocket change

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No, but I see an even bigger error.

This North Carolina quarter has a South Carolina
reverse!!

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410a · October 28, 2006 11:41AM

Is this a trick question?

I see that planchet defect on a lot of these states quarters.
Interesting die blob in the 2nd zero.

mirabela · October 28, 2006 12:01PM

The doubling just looks like machine doubling to me. The filled zero is interesting, as it would suggest a massive pit or something in the die. That coin looks like it was struck with a crappy, eroded die in general.

I see lots of state quarters with that struck-through (grease? plastic?) look on them, especially on the obverses. I recently split open a North Dakota roll just looking for a few nice coins to save in 2x2's, and there was not one with a decent, fully-struck obverse. They were all like the one in your picture, although most were not quite as extensively awful.

Thenewguy · October 28, 2006 2:03PM

Struck thru grease on the obverse, die chip in the 0 of the date and the doubling in the state motto looks to me to be either machine doubling or die deterioration doubling.