A while back, I posted this quarter I found in my change. I suggested it was an error coin, that something went wrong at the mint to cause this damage.

I asked the HIVE community for suggestions and some confirmed mint damage, others suggested damage outside of the mint.

The more I looked at it, the more I suspected this was something other than mint damage. But I wanted to have error coin enthusiasts give their assessment over what happened to cause this odd deformity.

I joined an error coin forum, so I could post images of the quarter, to get the community's evaluation of whether this is an error or not.

The Assessment

I posted an overview of the coin with photos to identify if this was an error coin.

After a few days, one of the members responded and informed me this is not a mint error:

Not a Mint Error

So after all that, this is not a mint error after all. My guess is that it was damaged inside some sort of vending machine, or coin sorting machine. The edge of the quarter appears to have been bent up with another coin on top forming the round fold, while the raised edge rubbed against something metal which flattened the raised edge.

That is the best explanation of what happened. There's a good chance the coin was jammed pretty well into whatever machine did this damage, but the user got it out and put it back into circulation.

So now we know and knowing is half the battle.

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