1976 Bicentennial Quarter error

This Bicentennial features an R on Washington's chin due to a previous off center strike. The rim of the coin from the previous strike also is visible.
I have up to 400x magnification and can make out distinct die characteristics whithin the R on the chin that has doubling strait west on the R on his chin. Whats it worth??

 

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Anyone know what it's worth

 

That looks like a Normal Strike Quarter. No Off Center. The Chin has Circulation Damage. The other marks are his from another reeded edge.
Not a Mint Error of any kind.

- Mr. Ed -
Specializing in collecting Mint Errors since 1986

 

Seriously? Just 25 Cents

 

400x magnification ????

 

25 Cents ? Hardly the work.

 

and where exactly is the rim from the previous strike because I don't see it?

 

I call it.. NWT - Newbie Wishful Thinking

 

Yup, if that was off-center strike, and since it would have been extremely off-center, then we know that the collar was not in the die set. And thus it would be broadstruck which would look A LOT different as it would get smooshed and have no chance of actually being round especially if it was struck a second time.

 

I want to know when the OP's book will be released. Which book is that, you ask? Aesop's Numismatic Fables, of course!

 

Technical term:

spare change

 

"If" that "Were" an "R" from a "previous" strike......

It would be raised, just like the other "R" not incused. that is damage on your coin.
and actually washingtons head is deeper in the die than the motto, so it would totally obliterate the motto if it were to have been there in a 2nd strike as the metal moves to fill the void space the head takes up.

what you think you are seeing isn't what it is, because it can't happen how you want to explain it as happening.

in fact, if you came with, "partial dropped letter R from a filled R in the die", I might have even gone along with you for a bit.

 

Yeah. I actually did an overlay of the R from TRUST over the chin. And it kinda looks about right. (here's a pic of it next to it)


But the "extra rim" statement threw me and then I was thinking the R in LIBERTY as it's near the rim. and that R is totally different.

So I'm totally lost in the context of the description.

 

of course in his other post


some how only TRUST is shown .. what happened to IN GOD WE ..
and how did the "rim" change it's arc angle in respect to TRUST ??

 

.....

 

the real answer is aliens !!

 

Yeah, And That's what I'm getting at here. I'm thinking it is incused, and it's distorted, and that isn't a "rim" in the image but a ring left on it by another coin at some point as a red herring.

What I will go along with is that it was possibly incused, and a dropped R from a filled die, that was Struck through Washingtons chin,and the metal movement misshaped it/ distorted it some on the strike.

I can go along with that, but depends on if it's raised or indented.

Struck through dropped R from a filled die. That's where I am on it. And I'm not even certain of that completely.

your overlay makes it a bit more plausible than I had thought, but it's definitely not a 2nd strike if you could see the R, you'd definitely see more of the motto.

 

All it really is.. Circuation Damage!

 

it certainly could be circulation damage. I haven't ruled that out either. LOL

 

I'm in the camp of gratuitous looking damage.

normally an overlay shows how completely off things are. This one isn't totally off but it is still not the same. and once you add the total word TRUST and a rim ... not a chance.