I have a very odd looking quarter that I received as change from a vending machine several years ago.Appears to have the wrong metal composition,and the edge is smooth.What interested me,is that it is the exact size and weight as other state quarters.Can this be an extreme error quarter? Follow this link for pictures.....http://www.flickr.com/photos/7766983@N02/5529722699/in/photostream/
Not an error. Just an enviromentally damaged State Quarter that spent a little too much time in vending and slot machines. Since the reeding on the edge is primarily copper (which is very soft) its usually the first thing to go on a copper-nickel clad coin. The darkness is more than likely the result of some chemical that the coin has been exposed to such as water, or even some detergents.
i am not that knowlagable on modern us coins like this 1 but it could be unclad example from the picture. Or what he said^^
An unclad coin or what is commonly called "missing a clad layer" would not weight the same and would have copper colored rims.
oh i didnt see the bit about the weight. Also it looked completly copper colourd to me but im on my phone and the pic is only small
That looks like what my quater looked like after I swallowed it and digested it when i was 8..Never know
Thank you all for the information.I decided to take the coin to a local coin dealer,and he said that there is apparent erosion,but what he found interesting was the smooth rounded rim,being that the coin is the exact with of a normal state quarter.He did a scratch test and found the rim to be cooper.He wanted someone else to look at it.
