Connecticut State quarter error? 1 1

[Natecowboys82]

Is this quarter a misprint and is it worth anything? You can see the back is mostly blank but you can see where it starts to print the tree in the center, also one side shows copper edges while the other doesnt

[Sandon]

    Welcome to the NGC chat board.

   Please crop your photos so that they show only the coin and not mostly the surrounding surface. A photo of the coin's edge might also be helpful.

   Based on what I can see from the current photos, it appears that both the obverse and reverse of the coin have been mostly planed off after the coin left the mint, either to test a tool or in a crude effort to make it appear as though the coin were a weak strike or other mint error. 

[Natecowboys82]

After looking at the pics I took I thought the same but still thought it was odd that small part of the tree on the back does not line up like the front and back of most state quarter

[Hoghead515]

I agree with Sandon. Its just heavily damaged. People do all sorts of crazy things to coins. Weve seen a little bit of everything on here. I dont know if its from boredom or trying to pass some off as mint errors. Or crude art projects. Looks like its had a sander or something of that nature taken to it. If you learn how the minting process works you will learn theres no way possible for it to happen at the mint. 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Hoghead515

[Natecowboys82]

[Hoghead515]

Its definately pmd or post mint damage. Happend after it left the mint. 

[Natecowboys82]

I figured after I saw the marks in a semi circular motion after I examined the pic I took, thank you guys for the insight!

[powermad5000]

Someone took either a buffing or grinding wheel to both sides of the coin. Why, well, some of these things cannot be explained. The gold color is the copper of the actual planchet after the copper-nickel cladding was finally ground off and back down to the original copper planchet. This coin was attacked by Jason, Freddy, Leatherface and Edward Scissorhands.

[J P M]

Now that looks like a dryer coin. It got pinched in the center between the barrel and frame and spun around a lot before it fell out .  

[JT2]

ever herd of a dremel? 

[EagleRJO]

I agree that the coin looks like someone ground down the rims to the core on the obverse and ground out the devices on the reverse which caused what appears to be raised rims.

Its a common misconception that a coin in a commercial dryer can get stuck in a vertical position between the inner and outer drums of a commercial dryer, where the space is narrower than the coin diameter, which then pushes in the edges of a coin similar to "spooning".  It just cant happen if you think about it.  If the space between the drums is less than the diameter the coin, then the coin would never get in a vertical position as there is nothing forcing the con to fit in that smaller space.

Dryer coins can have rims at the edge of a coin that are flattened, like the attached 1985 quarter, caused by the coin sliding around flatwise for quite a while on the hot commercial dryer drums.  Coins usually just slide around, and if the coin diameter is smaller than the space between the drums it might occasionally roll around (see the attached diagram).  But that wouldn't push the edges inward much, unlike spooning a coin.

https://boards.ngccoin.com/topic/429492-spooned-coins/#comment-9828185