Mint mark in wrong location?

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You have a Philadelphia minted Quarter. What you see on the back is some weird issue on the planchet. That is not a mint mark. Nor it's a misplaced mint mark or dropped letter.

 

Looks like PSD.

 

thanks. I'm new at this. are you also refering to a planchet disorder?

 

PSD = Post Strike Damage

The mark occurred after the coin was struck.

 

Thanks

 

The raised "D" on the arrow heads is interesting. I would need to see it in-hand to make a real judgment.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

what about the mess of images between the throat and TRUST? In fact there's dropped letters all over the fields on ths coin.

 

I can't see any other images. What exactly do you see?

 

No there’s not. I would refrain from giving out advice until you educate yourself on coins and the minting process.

 

I didn't give any advice, I asked for some.

 

I didn't give any advice, I asked for some.

 

I was not referring to you, I was referring to @funnycoins, who is giving you bad information (note that I responded to his post).

You are all good and welcome to CT!

 

Paradalia strikes again.

 

Thank you.

 

I did now its your turn...oh yes check the definition of "advice" and "comment"

Dropped filling (ES May/June 2003; CW 8/16/10, 6/11/12, 10/29/12)

• Isolated elements (dropped letter, dropped number) (CW 2/7/05)
• Conjoined dropped fillings (CW 8/16/10)
• Large dropped filling incorporating numerous design elements (CW 4/19/10, 8/16/10)
• Retained dropped filling courtesy Variety-Vista

 

Just because you can cut and paste doesn’t mean you know how to identify those elements on a coin. That coin is simply damaged and does not have “dropped letters all over the place”.

 

I apologize @frankjg but I do due diligence prior to offering anything other than comments and observations from other coins I have investigated
. Let educate!!
The mint mark on the coin is located on the reverse beneath the wreath on which the eagle is perched, and will either carry the mint mark "D" for the Denver Mint, "S" for the San Francisco Mint, or be blank if minted at the Philadelphia Mint.The Silver Series of Washington Quarters spans from 1932 to 1964; during many years in the series it will appear that certain mints did not mint Washington Quarters for that year. No known examples of quarters were made in 1933, San Francisco abstained in 1934 and 1949, and stopped after 1955, until it resumed in 1968 by way of making proofs. Denver did not make quarters in 1938. Proof examples from 1936 to 1942 and 1950 to 1967 were struck at the Philadelphia Mint; in 1968 proof production was shifted to the San Francisco Mint.
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In 1964, there was a severe shortage of coins.[30]Silver prices were rising, and the public responded by hoarding not only the wildly popular new coin, the Kennedy half dollar, but the other denominations, including the non-silver cent and nickel.[31] Hopeful that issuing more 1964-dated coins would counter the speculation in them, the Treasury obtained Congressional authorization to continue striking 1964-dated coins into 1965.[32]

The Mint's production of coins rapidly depleted the Treasury's stock of silver. Prices for the metal were rising to such an extent that, by early June 1965, a dollar in silver coin contained 93.3 cents' worth of it at market prices. On June 3, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson announced plans to eliminate silver from the dime and quarter in favor of a clad composition, with layers of copper-nickel on each side of a layer of pure copper. The half dollar was changed from 90% silver to 40%.[33] Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1965 in July, under which the Mint transitioned from striking 1964-dated silver quarters to striking 1965-dated clad quarters.[34] Beginning on August 1, 1966, the Mint began to strike 1966-dated pieces, and thereafter it resumed the normal practice of striking the current year's date on each piece.[35]

The new clad quarters were struck without mint mark in 1965–1967, regardless of the mint of origin. Beginning in 1968, mint marks were used again, except that Philadelphia continued to issue coins without them. The San Francisco Mint had reopened, but from 1968, it struck quarters only for collectors, for the most part proof coins.[36] The Mint adjusted both sides of the coin for the initiation of clad coinage, lowering the relief (the modified reverse design exists on some 1964-dated silver quarters).