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Any way to tell a 1965 from a 1985 quarter without seeing the date?
Steve27
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No spaghetti hair, so I know it's not a 95.
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Edited to say...
Unless someone,s running around making fantasy strikes of 1975 quarters....
By the way, your coin is a good illustration
of a double strike, where the coin was partially
overlapping another planchet when it was
struck again - so the Rev. of the 2nd strike
is 'uniface', meaning the rev. die didn't hit
it, it was laying over the 2nd planchet.
The 2nd coin would now have a brockage
strike. If the two were found together,
you'd have a 'mated pair'
for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
75?
Edited to say...
Unless someone,s running around making fantasy strikes of 1975 quarters....
Oops, I meant 1965 or 1985.
It's not a '65, so I vote for 1985.
By the way, your coin is a good illustration
of a double strike, where the coin was partially
overlapping another planchet when it was
struck again - so the Rev. of the 2nd strike
is 'uniface', meaning the rev. die didn't hit
it, it was laying over the 2nd planchet.
The 2nd coin would now have a brockage
strike. If the two were found together,
you'd have a 'mated pair'
Interesting information, thanks Fred.
85's have a P mintmark. I would think it's probably a 65.
Yes you're right, now I feel foolish, the "P" mint mark was added beginning 1980.
85's have a P mintmark. I would think it's probably a 65.
This. Uh, Fred ?
The 1985 mintmark is placed directly adjacent to the tip of George's qeue.
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85's have a P mintmark. I would think it's probably a 65.
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I guess it happens to the best of us....
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I totally missed that when I looked at the photo
in the original post....Sorry - can't believe my
brain cells weren't flashing properly yesterday.
My only (weak) excuse - yesterday, I had to get
up at 4:00 a.m here in LA to get to my office
early to participate in a breakfast meeting (on the phone for me)
at Central States - there's a Numismatic Task Force for
Anti-Counterfeiting, and I'm on it.
Again, I just wasn't thinking - no good excuse for that mistake!
Fred
for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
An error rarer than any error coin he has.
That was a good little exercise of our brain matter......
That had to be a 1965 because it did not possess the increasingly apparent spaghetti hair look seen in the later dated quarters although I do not recall when the spagehetti hair look started? Was it around 1985 to 1990 range?
'96.
People obviously don't have a reference collection of clad quarters.
The designs pretty much changed every year.
To catch Fred with misinformation is extremely rare.
An error rarer than any error coin he has.
Yep!
I believe he's only made two errors in his whole career. (Of course the first mistake cost him 400K. . .)
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