Maura Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Hello, I was going through some old coins I had and came across this 1998 Quarter, is this damaged or is this an error? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Bob Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Welcome to the forum. Your coin looks like it has spent some time in the bowels of a commercial clothes dryer or some other machine that has worn down the edge and one side. It is not an error coin but is merely damaged. Maura 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Meenderink Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Classic dryer coin. Maura 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coinbuf Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I also concur that damage is the cause of how your coin came to look like this. Maura 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenstang Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Welcome to the Chat Board It is only an error if it happens during the striking of the planchet. What you have could not happen at that time so it is PMD ( Post Minting Damage) Maura 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermad5000 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Hello and welcome to the forum! However it happened to your coin, something abraded the surface, removed some of the metal, and left behind those deep scratches. This would not happen in the striking process and is not a mint error but simply damage to the coin. Coins can sustain different damage in almost countless ways. Some intentional, some accidental, some experimental. Once a coin is severely damaged, it retains no collector value and as such, while I do like to try to figure things out and come up with solid, concrete answers as to how things happen, I find in some situations that sometimes it is not worth the time spent to try to figure out how it happened. Maura 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
