1987 p Washington quarter dollar with over a dozen mistakes help me with your knowledge and I will be appreciative. 1 1

[Coinhead911]

[VKurtB]

Can you please tell me what you mean by “mistakes”? Hint: you’re going to have a problem getting others to adopt that description. What you have here is damage that occurred well after this quarter left the mint. 

Edited April 13 by VKurtB

[Coinhead911]

I'm inclined to disagree sir. If that is so how has become thicker and slightly less rounded not to mention I have seen some with simulate appearances online but not exact.

[Coinhead911]

On 4/13/2024 at 12:00 AM, VKurtB said:

Can you please tell me what you mean by “mistakes”? Hint: you’re going to have a problem getting others to adopt that description. What you have here is damage that occurred well after this quarter left the mint. 

I would like for you to let me send some more photos and tell me then what you think.

 

[Coinhead911]

On 4/13/2024 at 12:00 AM, VKurtB said:

Can you please tell me what you mean by “mistakes”? Hint: you’re going to have a problem getting others to adopt that description. What you have here is damage that occurred well after this quarter left the mint. 

[Coinhead911]

On 4/13/2024 at 12:52 AM, Coinhead911 said:

Sir thank you for your insights but with all due respect I have seen other 1987p Washington quarters for sale online that had the same flattened cheek and if I was guessing I would bet this one come from the same batch of coins that where minted consecutive to one another.

[Coinbuf]

On 4/12/2024 at 9:55 PM, Coinhead911 said:

Sir thank you for your insights but with all due respect I have seen other 1987p Washington quarters for sale online that had the same flattened cheek and if I was guessing I would bet this one come from the same batch of coins that where minted consecutive to one another.

I'm sorry that you have been mislead biased on some misinformation you read on the web.   Your coin is damaged, most likely a dryer coin, also possibly a damaged coin that someone attempted to spoon.   Google dryer coin and spooned coin to see examples that look like yours, it did not leave the mint like that and it was not coined like that at the US mint.

[cobymordet]

I say you post it on ebay and sell it for $5,000. But I would recommend you to consider using the "best offer" option...just in case.

 

[powermad5000]

Hello and welcome!

I think you may have a "combination" coin. The reverse has deep abrasions that would be in conjunction with a dryer coin, and the rim has the indications of a spooned coin. I guess it would be possible for someone to rescue a dryer coin and decide it is now not "good" anymore so to try to make something else out of it.

[Greenstang]

Dryer coin or spooned coin, they are both considered damage.  You cannot have a quarter    
without reeding unless it was stuck out of collar which yours was not.
When you say “mistakes” , I assume you mean errors. There are no errors on your coin.  
Still worth 25cents though no matter how much damage.

[J P M]

I agree this is a damaged coin most likely from being caught in a dryer barrel When it flips on end it will roll it flat on the rim until it falls and then it will rub the sides of the coin until it is just right.

[VKurtB]

I’m feeling an “I told you so” coming. 

[JKK]

On 4/12/2024 at 9:55 PM, Coinhead911 said:

Sir thank you for your insights but with all due respect I have seen other 1987p Washington quarters for sale online that had the same flattened cheek and if I was guessing I would bet this one come from the same batch of coins that where minted consecutive to one another.

The difference is that we're not guessing. We know.

What people have listed for sale online means nothing because anyone can list anything online for whatever price they want, typically ratcheting the price high enough to reach "it only takes one sucker" territory. Anyone could create similar coins with a clothes dryer and some patience, and I'm starting to think that some online sellers do exactly that.

In the meantime, the reality is that you are wasting your time trying to tell us we're wrong and that your coin is special because other people also post dryer coins. Validation will not be forthcoming; you won't get anything out of it but increasing testiness which would be too bad, because while you're quite misguided on this, you're politely misguided and that counts for something. You asked, you've been told, you don't concur; okay--you're not going to change our correct conclusions, nor will we change your incorrect ones. The next court of appeal would be a grading service, where for $60 or so they can confirm what we're telling you. I hope you don't do something so wastefully misguided. Do you have any idea what sort of a beautiful Washington quarter $60 would buy? I suggest you do some looking and find out. Here is one example, a 1954 PF-68, duly slabbed, that sold for $38. Further searches would turn up dozens of gorgeous Georges for $10-15. When you could have those for that kind of money, you will see why some of us think that it's a waste of your time to even care about a ruined dryer coin, much less debate about it.

If that seems blunt to the point of rudeness, bear in mind that to my eyes, I see someone who might possibly be contemplating lighting three of his own $20 bills on fire, and am trying to talk him out of burning them. If he construes that as rude, he might consider that the $60 is not my money, and that I'm an honest volunteer trying to keep him from destroying it. Far easier for me to just shrug, walk away, and let the smoke plume rise. Usually I do. This time I did not.

[VKurtB]

On 4/13/2024 at 12:34 PM, JKK said:

The difference is that we're not guessing. We know.

What people have listed for sale online means nothing because anyone can list anything online for whatever price they want, typically ratcheting the price high enough to reach "it only takes one sucker" territory. Anyone could create similar coins with a clothes dryer and some patience, and I'm starting to think that some online sellers do exactly that.

In the meantime, the reality is that you are wasting your time trying to tell us we're wrong and that your coin is special because other people also post dryer coins. Validation will not be forthcoming; you won't get anything out of it but increasing testiness which would be too bad, because while you're quite misguided on this, you're politely misguided and that counts for something. You asked, you've been told, you don't concur; okay--you're not going to change our correct conclusions, nor will we change your incorrect ones. The next court of appeal would be a grading service, where for $60 or so they can confirm what we're telling you. I hope you don't do something so wastefully misguided. Do you have any idea what sort of a beautiful Washington quarter $60 would buy? I suggest you do some looking and find out. Here is one example, a 1954 PF-68, duly slabbed, that sold for $38. Further searches would turn up dozens of gorgeous Georges for $10-15. When you could have those for that kind of money, you will see why some of us think that it's a waste of your time to even care about a ruined dryer coin, much less debate about it.

If that seems blunt to the point of rudeness, bear in mind that to my eyes, I see someone who might possibly be contemplating lighting three of his own $20 bills on fire, and am trying to talk him out of burning them. If he construes that as rude, he might consider that the $60 is not my money, and that I'm an honest volunteer trying to keep him from destroying it. Far easier for me to just shrug, walk away, and let the smoke plume rise. Usually I do. This time I did not.

And I almost NEVER DO. I usually let ‘er fly.