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Is this an RPM on my Washington Quarter?

It certainly looks like one...


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Thanks!

-Paul

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  • ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Seeing no signs of mechanical/machine doubling anywhere else, I'd say yes it is.
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Seeing no signs of mechanical/machine doubling anywhere else, I'd say yes it is. >>


    i'm in this crowd too...nice coin btw
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭
    Being a Washie guy, looks like it to me....and is that a NEW 2.1 you got there???? Man, I'm going to have to start really looking for these so you don't get them ALL, then I can sell them to you for a bigger premium!!! image
    I'll come up with something.
  • Looks like a nice rpm to me, good eye.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,668 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry, but it looks like machine doubling. It can manifest itself on the mint mark but not the design because the mint mark rises out of the field at a very sharp angle, while the adjacent designs all slope up out of the field at relatively shallow angles. Get a bit of sideways displacement of the die as it is pulling away from the just-struck coin, and the edge of the mint mark hole in the die can kiss the side of the mint mark while the edge of the hole that forms the wreath stem will miss the shallow wreath stem.

    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dang...no Numismatist of the Year award for me. image

    I agree that the appearance of the MM looks like machine doubling, but convinced myself otherwise absent visible doubling on other devices.
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,524 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would vote yes.
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
    Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners. :smile:
  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭
    I've been spending too much time with my face in the wrong books, lately, I guess (meaning SCHOOL books....minds out of the gutter).
    I'll come up with something.
  • <<Sorry, but it looks like machine doubling. It can manifest itself on the mint mark but not the design because the mint mark rises out of the field at a very sharp angle, while the adjacent designs all slope up out of the field at relatively shallow angles. Get a bit of sideways displacement of the die as it is pulling away from the just-struck coin, and the edge of the mint mark hole in the die can kiss the side of the mint mark while the edge of the hole that forms the wreath stem will miss the shallow wreath stem.>>

    Washington quarters are especially noted for this effect.

  • coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Sorry, but it looks like machine doubling. It can manifest itself on the mint mark but not the design because the mint mark rises out of the field at a very sharp angle, while the adjacent designs all slope up out of the field at relatively shallow angles. Get a bit of sideways displacement of the die as it is pulling away from the just-struck coin, and the edge of the mint mark hole in the die can kiss the side of the mint mark while the edge of the hole that forms the wreath stem will miss the shallow wreath stem.

    TD >>



    Interesting, I didn't know that! Thanks! Doesn't matter anyways, I'm just happy to add a new 2.1 to my hoard! image


    -Paul
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Put me in the no column.
    Sorry.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"


  • << <i>Sorry, but it looks like machine doubling. It can manifest itself on the mint mark but not the design because the mint mark rises out of the field at a very sharp angle, while the adjacent designs all slope up out of the field at relatively shallow angles. Get a bit of sideways displacement of the die as it is pulling away from the just-struck coin, and the edge of the mint mark hole in the die can kiss the side of the mint mark while the edge of the hole that forms the wreath stem will miss the shallow wreath stem.

    TD >>


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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting... I would like to see other pictures with different lighting, although likely machine doubling. Cheers, RickO
  • coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Interesting... I would like to see other pictures with different lighting, although likely machine doubling. Cheers, RickO >>




    It's all packed up for CAC already, but I'll take more shots when I get it back! image




    -Paul
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,121 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nice quarter and grade image

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