Money money money

This Quarter was one of the one placed on my great great grandfather's eyes when he died.

Clipped planchet ... mint error

Where the buffalo roam

1943

coin of the realm

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Rafael Peñaloza says:

There seems to be a bitten one in the lower left part... Interesting that being one of the "newest" coins, it is more destroyed than the others.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

The "bitten" one is likely a mint error. When the blank disks, called planchets, are cut from a sheet of metal -- sometimes a disk will fall back under the cutters -- with the effect shown here -- a piece cut from the disk. This one went on through the process and was struck with the design to become a coin. It even eluded the mint's quality control to reach circulation. This is a whole area of coin collecting -- mint errors.

Or I could be completely wrong, and the coin really was bitten -- by someone with nicely curved teeth...
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

Whatknot says:

Exactly ... a clipped planched. An error caused by misfeed in the blanking operation.
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

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Amazing array of old coins! Wow - they must be worth a pretty nice sum!

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