South Dakota Quarters...half a roll and already found a dozen problem coins

Crazy4Coins

Picked up a $500 box and haven't even made it through one roll yet and already have a dozen coins with different breaks and other problems....Is this normal for the P mint coins?

ledzep87

Die breaks are very common for both the Denver and Philadelphia minted quarters. One of the most common breaks is along the lower part of Washington's bust.

Crazy4Coins

I have found several of those...Also a few on the breaks/cracks on reverse, one from rim through P, running above date up to Mount Rushmore....another from rim through A extending into field, quite a few with what look like planchet problems ( lamination or grease)?.....and another with large bumps/dots on bust and on eagle...

mirabela

The nicest one I pulled from a roll I broke -- a lustrous gem no-question 65, which I find is a fairly difficult thing to find generally speaking -- has a crack splitting the last 'A' in 'SOUTH DAKOTA' right down the middle from the rim into the field to the right of the pheasant, and a big Frankenstein scar running from the high point of Washington's eyebrow halfway up to his temple.

I really hope someone comes along and does a book on all the die varieties of these someday, since I have saved so many weird ones over the last few years.