Learn Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 I am not sure what to classify this quarter as? Will this be classify as machine damage? Is that a double die on Washington's nose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenstang Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Looks like Environmental Damage or possibly a stain. Probably taken a hit or two over the years also. Not a DD on the nose. In the future, please post a photo of both sides of the coin instead of two of the same side. This can help in evaluating your coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learn Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 Ok thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) Damage from stain and likely automatic rolling equipment. PS: You'll get better detail if you reduce or turn off the phony (pun intended) sharpening on you phone -- all it does is increase contrast and washout details. Edited August 3, 2020 by RWB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henri Charriere Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) No offense to Learn, or my learned colleagues at large, but this pitiable example fully represents why I stopped out of the hobby some 50+ years ago. Again, no one wants to state the obvious: The Emperor Has No Clothes! What are we talking about here, damage of some kind to a CLAD coin? Anyone care to venture a guess as to the numismatic value of this shipwrecked relic? Do I hear 25? Fifty? My dear Mr. Learn, The ridership (those who delight in taking us all for a ride, newbie and oldie, alike) are being excruciatingly polite. Forget the classification. What I would really like to know is whether or not you are curious as to its numismatic worth? Or enough copper in the thing to salvage your quarter investment if the local laundry machine rejects it. It is perfectly alright for grown men to agonize, wring their hands and gnash their teeth over a Fugio cent. A clad, not so much. And a damaged one, in mixed company, never! My unremitting, totally biased and embarrassingly prejudiced opinion. Edited August 4, 2020 by Quintus Arrius Temperament Modwriter and Big Nub numismatics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Learn Posted August 4, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2020 Thanks for the essay Crawtomatic, JKK and RonnieR131 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henri Charriere Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 11 minutes ago, Learn said: Thanks for the essay My self-censored reply (which I am not man enough to post) originally read as follows: "Simple cat urine staining which can easily be removed with a spritz of Water Displacement formula number 40, a/k/a WD-40." As you can see, I do have the ability to bite my tongue. Seriously, Mr. L, you have the enviable luxury to conduct your own mad scientist resuscitation effort on this coin, a la VKurtB, no offense intended. Modwriter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VKurtB Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Even worse than the fates that befell this poor coin, are the highly pixelated over-digitally-sharpened photos. Yikes! Maybe you have some extremely shaky portrait orientation videos for us that you have posted on YouRube? [kidding] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henri Charriere Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 (edited) On 8/5/2020 at 10:24 AM, VKurtB said: Even worse than the fates that befell this poor coin, are the highly pixelated over-digitally-sharpened photos. Yikes! Maybe you have some extremely sharp portrait orientation videos for us that you have posted on YouRube? [kidding] Note: For the record, this coin [as displayed on my wife's cheap, knock-off] cell is appropriately sharp with detail, color and contrast and, for all intents and purposes, presents as though it were in the palm of my hand. (In point of fact, it looks just as detailed as that stunning SG D/E slated for auction at Heritage, 9/17/20!) My cell is strictly talk and text. [No internet.] Edited August 8, 2020 by Quintus Arrius Add comment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henri Charriere Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 I don't know why anyone would compromise his values and feel obligated to dignify anything I have written (usually tongue-in-cheek; often dripping with sarcasm) with a rhetorical rant Viewers know my story well... stopped out after silver was taken out of coinage, dove back in after surgery last year, and while still under the influence of prescribed painkillers, amassed a world class collection of French 20-franc gold rooster which accords me the unprecedented privilege and honor of refereeing skirmishes between the misfits and the one-liners and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the ne'er-do-wells and the God-knows-whats of the highly esteemed collector community. My apologies if I left anyone out. Now aren't you sorry you asked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_OldeTowne Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 It's just a normal, ordinary quarter worth 25-cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
